Ezra 8:15

The Exiles Travel to Jerusalem

8:15 I had them assemble ¹  at the canal ²  that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I observed that the people and the priests were present, but I found no Levites there.

Ezra 9:13

9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint ³  toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

[8:15]  ¹ tn Or “I gathered them.”

[8:15]  ² tn Heb “river.” So also in vv. 21, 31.

[9:13]  ³ tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).