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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Esdra 7:28

ed ha fatto che io ho trovata benignità appo il re, ed appo i suoi consiglieri, ed appo tutti i suoi potenti principi. Io dunque, essendomi fortificato, secondo che la mano del Signore Iddio mio era sopra me, adunai i capi d’Israele, acciocchè ritornassero meco.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Temple;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hand;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eschatology;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Persia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Per'sia;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Eschatology of the New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
e mi ha fatto trovare favore presso il re, i suoi consiglieri e tutti i potenti principi reali. Cos mi sentii incoraggiato, perch la mano dellEterno, il mio DIO, era su di me, e radunai i capi dIsraele perch partissero con me.
Riveduta Bibbia
e che m’ha conciliato la benevolenza del re, de’ suoi consiglieri e di tutti i suoi potenti capi! Ed io, fortificato dalla mano dell’Eterno, del mio Dio, ch’era su me, radunai i capi d’Israele perché partissero meco.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

extended: Ezra 9:9, Genesis 32:28, Genesis 43:14, Nehemiah 1:11

his counsellors: Ezra 7:14, Jonah 3:7

And I was strengthened: In what the king decreed he saw the hand of God: he therefore gave Him the praise, and took courage.

as the hand: Ezra 7:6, Ezra 7:9, Ezra 5:5, Ezra 8:18, Nehemiah 2:8, 2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:50 - and give them Ezra 8:22 - The hand Ezra 8:31 - the hand Psalms 126:3 - General Proverbs 21:1 - The king's Proverbs 29:26 - ruler's favour Daniel 1:9 - General Haggai 1:14 - stirred Luke 6:38 - and it Luke 7:5 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And hath extended mercy unto me, before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes,.... Before Artaxerxes, his seven counsellors, Ezra 7:14 and the nobles of his realm, in being appointed by them to carry their freewill offerings to Jerusalem, and the king's commands to his treasurers, with leave to take as many of the Jews with him as were willing to go:

and I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me; animated to undertake this work, and execute this commission, being under the influence of divine favour and protection:

and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me; he went about in the several parts where Israelites dwelt, and persuaded some of the principal men among them to go along with him to Jerusalem, showing them the king's decree, which gave them leave; and their names and numbers are described in the next chapter.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 7:28. And I was strengthened — In what the king decreed he saw the hand of God; he therefore gave him the praise, and took courage. There is a most amiable spirit of piety in these reflections. Ezra simply states the case; shows what the king had determined, and tells what he said; and then points out the grand agent in the whole business-it was the Lord God of his fathers. Thus God had put it into the king's heart to beautify the house of Jehovah; and, as that house was built for the salvation of the souls of men, he gives God praise for putting it into the king's heart to repair it: he who loves God and man will rejoice in the establishment of the Divine worship, because this is the readiest way to promote the best interests of man.


 
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