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Ezra 7:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

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Ezra 5:13• ¹³But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, king Cyrus gave orders to build this house of God. (Ezra 5:13)

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Ezra 6:1• ¹Then king Darius gave orders, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. (Ezra 6:1)

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2 Chron. 30:5• ⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to hold the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel, at Jerusalem; because they had not held it for a long time as it was written. (2 Chron. 30:5)

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Esther 3:15• ¹⁵The couriers went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was in consternation. (Esther 3:15)

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Esther 9:14• ¹⁴And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. (Esther 9:14)

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Psa. 148:6• ⁶And he established them for ever and ever; he made for them a statute which shall not pass. (Psa. 148:6)

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Ezra 1:3• ³Whosoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah the God of Israel--he is God--which is at Jerusalem. (Ezra 1:3)

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Psa. 110:3• ³Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning shall come to thee the dew of thy youth. (Psa. 110:3)

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Phil. 2:13• ¹³for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure. (Phil. 2:13)

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Rev. 22:17• ¹⁷And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come; he that will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev. 22:17)

• There is a saying, “absence makes the heart grow fonder,” but in spiritual things, the opposite is true. Like a campfire, the further we sit from it, the colder we become. Those that returned with Ezra, as we shall see in the next chapter, appear to have been much fewer in number than the company that returned with Zerubbabel. It is important to note that this generation of exiles did not return to build the temple or even the walls of the city. The one had been completed and the other awaited Nehemiah. These returned to maintain the testimony of the God of Israel at Jerusalem, where He had placed His name. (“The Kings Letter - Ezra 7:11-28” by N. Simon)

• But no human constraint was to be exercised; if any man went up it must be voluntarily, for God would have willing servants. If under constraint, it must be only that of the Holy Spirit. (“The Book of Ezra: Restoration From Babylon: Ezra 7” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have given orders that all they of the people of Israel, and of their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are disposed to go to Jerusalem, go with thee.