3:7 So they provided money 1 for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon 2 and Tyre, 3 so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport 4 at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.
“For he is good;
his loyal love toward Israel is forever.”
All the people gave a loud 6 shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established.
7:25 “Now you, Ezra, in keeping with the wisdom of your God which you possess, 7 appoint judges 8 and court officials who can arbitrate cases on behalf of all the people who are in Trans-Euphrates who know the laws of your God. Those who do not know this law should be taught.
9:1 Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents 9 who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.
1 tn Heb “silver.”
2 map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
3 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
4 tn Heb “to the sea”
5 tn Heb “they answered.”
6 tn Heb “great.”
7 tn Aram “in your hand.”
8 tc For the MT reading שָׁפְטִין (shoftim, “judges”) the LXX uses the noun γραμματεῖς (grammatei", “scribes”).
9 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.” So also in v. 2.