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Ezra 7:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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`Ezra' (Hebrew #5830)
Ezra, an Israelite
KJV usage: Ezra.
Pronounce: ez-raw'
Origin: a variation of 5833
had prepared
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
g his heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
to seek
darash (Hebrew #1875)
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
KJV usage: ask, X at all, care for, X diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
Pronounce: daw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
h the law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and to do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
i it, and to teach
lamad (Hebrew #3925)
properly, to goad, i.e. (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive)
KJV usage: (un-) accustomed, X diligently, expert, instruct, learn, skilful, teach(-er, - ing).
Pronounce: law-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
k in Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
statutes
choq (Hebrew #2706)
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
KJV usage: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance(- nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Pronounce: khoke
Origin: from 2710
and judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
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2 Chron. 19:3• 3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God. (2 Chron. 19:3)
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Psa. 119:45• 45And I will walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts; (Psa. 119:45)
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Deut. 16:12• 12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and thou shalt keep and do these statutes. (Deut. 16:12)
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Dan. 6:5• 5Then said these men, We shall not find any pretext against this Daniel, unless we find it against him touching the law of his God. (Dan. 6:5)
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Deut. 33:10• 10They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thy nostrils, And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar. (Deut. 33:10)
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Mal. 2:7• 7For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:7)
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Titus 2:1,15• 1But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;
 15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee. (Titus 2:1,15)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Sam. 7:3• 3And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye return to Jehovah with all your heart, put away the strange gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and apply your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam. 7:3)
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1 Chron. 29:18• 18Jehovah, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and direct their hearts to thee! (1 Chron. 29:18)
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2 Chron. 12:14• 14And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah. (2 Chron. 12:14)
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2 Chron. 19:3• 3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God. (2 Chron. 19:3)
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Job 11:13• 13If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him, (Job 11:13)
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Psa. 10:17• 17Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear, (Psa. 10:17)
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Psa. 57:7• 7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms. (Psa. 57:7)
the law.
Ezra 7:6• 6--this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah the God of Israel had given. And the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him. (Ezra 7:6)
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Psa. 1:2• 2But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (Psa. 1:2)
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Psa. 19:7• 7The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple; (Psa. 19:7)
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Psa. 119:45,96‑100• 45And I will walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts;
 96I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
 97MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
 98Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.
 99I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
 100I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts. (Psa. 119:45,96‑100)
to do it.
Deut. 16:12• 12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and thou shalt keep and do these statutes. (Deut. 16:12)
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Matt. 5:19• 19Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach them, *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens. (Matt. 5:19)
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Matt. 7:24• 24Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; (Matt. 7:24)
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John 13:17• 17If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them. (John 13:17)
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Rev. 22:14• 14Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city. (Rev. 22:14)
and to teach.
Ezra 7:25• 25And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye him that knows them not. (Ezra 7:25)
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Deut. 33:10• 10They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thy nostrils, And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar. (Deut. 33:10)
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2 Chron. 17:8‑9• 8and with them the Levites: Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
 9And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about through all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people. (2 Chron. 17:8‑9)
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2 Chron. 30:22• 22And Hezekiah spoke consolingly to all the Levites that had understanding in the good knowledge of Jehovah; and they ate the feast-offerings the seven days, sacrificing peace-offerings, and extolling Jehovah the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 30:22)
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Neh. 8:1‑9• 1all the people gathered together as one man to the open place that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded Israel.
 2And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
 3And he read in it before the open place that was before the water-gate from the morning until midday, in presence of the men and the women, and those that could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
 4And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.
 5And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
 6And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God; and all the people answered, Amen, Amen! with lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.
 7And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stood in their place.
 8And they read in the law of God distinctly out of the book, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
 9And Nehemiah, that is, the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that explained to the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Jehovah your God: mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. (Neh. 8:1‑9)
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Mal. 2:7• 7For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:7)
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Acts 1:1• 1I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach, (Acts 1:1)
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1 Tim. 3:2• 2The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; (1 Tim. 3:2)
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2 Tim. 4:2• 2proclaim the word; be urgent in season and out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2)
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Titus 2:1,15• 1But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;
 15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee. (Titus 2:1,15)
• It wasn’t simply that Ezra had a good grasp of the law in his head, but he prepared his heart to seek it, and furthermore, to do it. (“Ezra - Ezra 7:1-10” by N. Simon)
• The heart, however, that is separated unto God will be full of Christ and must necessarily share the things of God with others. (“Ezra - Ezra 7:1-10” by N. Simon)
• Preparation of heart (and this also comes from the Lord) is everything, whether for the study of the Word, for prayer, or for worship. (See 1 Cor. 8:1-3; Heb. 10:22; 1 John 3:20-23.) (“The Book of Ezra: Restoration From Babylon: Ezra 7” by E. Dennett)
• It was not therefore to increase his knowledge, or to add to his repute as a teacher, but it was that his heart, life, and ways might be formed by it-that his own walk might be the embodiment of the truth, and thus well-pleasing to the Lord. (“The Book of Ezra: Restoration From Babylon: Ezra 7” by E. Dennett)
• Where teaching does not flow out of a heart that is itself subject to the truth, it is not only powerless to influence others, but it will also harden the heart of the teacher himself. (“The Book of Ezra: Restoration From Babylon: Ezra 7” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For Ezra had directed his heart to seek the law of Jehovah and to do it, and to teach in Israel the statutes and the ordinancesc.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "statute and ordinance."