Discovery BoxEzra 3:9 
Context3:9 So Jeshua appointed both his sons and his relatives, 1 Kadmiel and his sons (the sons of Yehudah 2 ), to take charge of the workers in the temple of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons, and their relatives 3 the Levites.
Ezra 8:22
Context8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy 4 along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger 5 is against everyone who forsakes him.”
Ezra 8:35
Context8:35 The exiles who were returning from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel – twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven male lambs, along with twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.
Ezra 9:7
Context9:7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and 6 priests, have been delivered over by the local kings 7 to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.
1 tn Heb “brothers.”
2 sn The name יְהוּדָה (Yehudah; cf. KJV, ASV, NASB “Judah”) is probably a variant of Hodaviah (see Ezra 2:40; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “brothers.”
4 tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).
5 tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).
6 tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.
7 tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”
