1 Esdras 8:27

27 I was encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and I gathered men from Israel to go up with me."

1 Esdras 8:27 In-Context

25 Then Ezra the scribe said, "Blessed be the Lord alone, who put this into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem,

26 and who honored me in the sight of the king and his counselors and all his Friends and nobles.

27 I was encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and I gathered men from Israel to go up with me."

28 These are the leaders, according to their ancestral houses and their groups, who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

29 Of the descendants of Phineas, Gershom. Of the descendants of Ithamar, Gamael. Of the descendants of David, Hattush son of Shecaniah.