King James Version
Ezra 7:8 in the King James Version says “And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.” — study this verse from Ezra chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.”
Ezra 7:8 · KJV
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. began: Heb. was the foundation of the going up
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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