Ezra 7:6

Overview - Ezra 7
Ezra goes up to Jerusalem.
11 The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra.
27 Ezra blesses God for this favour.
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Ezra 7:6  (King James Version)
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.
 


a ready
{Sopher mahir} does not merely signify a speedy writer, or an excellent penman, but one eminently skilful in expounding the law, {sophro chochmo,} "a wise scribe," as the Syriac renders.
Ezra 7:11 Ezra 7:12 Ezra 7:21 ; Psalms 45:1 ; Matthew 13:52

scribe
Nehemiah 8:4 Nehemiah 8:9 Nehemiah 8:13 ; Nehemiah 12:26 Nehemiah 12:36 Jeremiah 8:8 ; 1 Corinthians 1:20

the law
Deuteronomy 4:5 ; 28:1 Matthew 28:20 ; 1 Corinthians 15:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:1 1 Thessalonians 4:2

granted him
11-26

according to
Ezra 7:9 Ezra 7:28 ; 6:22 Ezra 8:18 Ezra 8:22 Ezra 8:31 Genesis 32:28 ; Nehemiah 1:10 Nehemiah 1:11 ; Nehemiah 2:8 Nehemiah 2:12 Nehemiah 2:18 4:15
Proverbs 3:6 ; Isaiah 50:2 ; 59:1