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Ezra 8:36
“They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.”
Verse in context — Ezra 8
34
the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.
35
The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
36
They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.
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Return from exile and rebuilding the temple under Zerubbabel and Ezra.
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