Esra 7:6

6 dieser Esra zog herauf von Babel; und er war ein kundiger Schriftgelehrter in dem Gesetz Moses, welches Jehova, der Gott Israels, gegeben hatte. Und weil die Hand Jehovas, seines Gottes, über ihm war, gab ihm der König all sein Begehr.

Esra 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 7:6

This Ezra went up from Babylon
A second time; for that he went up with Zerubbabel is clear from ( Nehemiah 12:1 ) , and is plainly intimated, ( Ezra 5:4 ) ,

and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of
Israel had given;
the meaning is, not that he had a quick hand in writing out copies of it, but was well versed in the knowledge of it; had studied it thoroughly, well instructed in it, and was abundantly qualified to teach it others; he was an eminent doctor of the law; so scribes, in the New Testament, who are the same with the lawyers, were such as were teachers of the law; the word here used in the Arabic language signifies to be expert, as Jarchi ^F15 learned from one of their doctors:

and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the
Lord his God upon him;
either upon Ezra, giving him favour with the king, and so success and prosperity; or it may denote the divine influence of the God of Ezra upon the heart of the king, moving him to grant what he asked of him, even everything he desired: he seems to have been sent upon an embassy to the king from the chief men at Jerusalem; perhaps the governors of Syria had not so fully made the disbursements the king in his decree had required them to make, since the following commission chiefly respects such things; and he was sent on that errand to acquaint the king with it, as well as to persuade those that remained to return, and to obtain leave for it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Comment. in Psal. xlv. 1. <arabic> "acutus ingenio et solers fuit", Golius, col. 2272. "in re exercitatus fuit et excultus", Castel. col. 2008. Ethiop. "docuit, erudivit", ib. col. 2007.

Esra 7:6 In-Context

4 des Sohnes Serachjas, des Sohnes Ussis, des Sohnes Bukkis,

5 des Sohnes Abischuas, des Sohnes Pinehas', des Sohnes Eleasars, des Sohnes Aarons, des Hauptpriesters-

6 dieser Esra zog herauf von Babel; und er war ein kundiger Schriftgelehrter in dem Gesetz Moses, welches Jehova, der Gott Israels, gegeben hatte. Und weil die Hand Jehovas, seines Gottes, über ihm war, gab ihm der König all sein Begehr.

7 Und es zog mit ihm eine Anzahl von den Kindern Israel und von den Priestern und den Leviten und den Sängern und den Torhütern und den Nethinim nach Jerusalem hinauf, im siebten Jahre des Königs Artasasta.

8 Und er kam nach Jerusalem im fünften Monat, das war das siebte Jahr des Königs.