Esdra 8:31

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Ditën e dymbëdhjetë të muajit të parë u nisëm nga lumi Ahava për të shkuar në Jeruzalem; dora e Perëndisë tonë ishte mbi ne dhe gjatë udhëtimit na liroi nga armiku dhe nga pritat e tij.

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the river of Ahava: Ezra 8:15, Ezra 8:21

the hand: Ezra 8:22, Ezra 7:9, Ezra 7:28, Job 5:19-24, Psalms 91:9-14, Isaiah 41:10-14, Acts 25:3, Acts 26:22

and he delivered: Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four months in completing, encumbered with families and possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others, that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the king, "that the hand of God was upon all them for good that seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them that forsook him," - Ezra 8:22, he determined to travel without a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any other, after his former avowed confidence in Him! Having, therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived unmolested at Jerusalem.

Reciprocal: Ezra 7:6 - according to Ezra 8:17 - Casiphia Ezra 8:23 - and he was entreated Psalms 121:8 - thy going out Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Isaiah 66:14 - the hand Hosea 6:9 - as troops Acts 20:3 - the Jews

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then we departed from the river of Ahava, on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem,.... The month Nisan, answering to part of March and part of April; this was two days before the passover began:

and the hand of our God was upon us; guiding, directing, and protecting them by his providence:

and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way; either by intimidating them, that they dared not attack them, or by directing them to take a different road, whereby they escaped them, see Ezra 8:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Jews with Ezra left Babylon on the first day of the first month Ezra 7:9. They reached Ahava in nine days, and, having remained there three Ezra 8:15, quitted it, and resumed their journey on the twelfth. They reached Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month Ezra 7:9, four months after the departure from Babylon.