Ezra 4:3

4:3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right ¹  to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”

Ezra 7:6

7:6 This Ezra is the one who came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king supplied him with everything he requested, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 8:22

8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy ²  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 ³  is against everyone who forsakes him.”

[4:3]  ¹ tn Heb “not to you and to us.”

[8:22]  ² tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).

[8:22]  ³ tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).