1 Esdras 8:27

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

1 Esdras 8:27 In-Context

25 Then said Ezra the scribe, "Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king to glorify His house that is in Jerusalem,

26 and hath honored me in the sight of the king and his counselors and all his friends and nobles.

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

28 And these are the chief men, according to their families and respective dignity, who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

29 of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael; of the sons of David, Hattush the son of Shecaniah;