1  And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto ^bEzra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

  9  For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good ^ahand of his God upon him.

  18  And by the good ^ahand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;