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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 the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. (Ezra 5:13)

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Ezra 6:1• ¹Then Darius the king made a decree, 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 all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. (2 Chron. 30:5)

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Esther 3:15• ¹⁵The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed. (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• ⁶He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. (Psa. 148:6)

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Ezra 1:3• ³Who is there 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 the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. (Ezra 1:3)

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Psa. 110:3• ³Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. (Psa. 110:3)

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Phil. 2:13• ¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of 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 heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever 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.