Text -- Ezra 8:22 (NET)

8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger is against everyone who forsakes him.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Ezr 8:22

¹ tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).

² tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).