 | Edmund Ironside Gregory - 1875 - 128 pages
...totally forgotten. None among them was more pure-hearted than Ezra. He " had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." It was to reform the abuses which had become common among the Jews... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1875 - 202 pages
...by the banks of Euphrates. He went up with deliberate purpose, "Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it, and to teach Israel statutes and judgments." l Fourteen years passed, and yet little was accomplished, when Nehemiah,... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1875 - 210 pages
...by the banks of Euphrates. He went up with deliberate purpose, " Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it, and to teach Israel statutes and judgments." l Fourteen years passed, and yet little was accomplished, when Nehemiah,... | |
 | Andrew Robert Fausset - 1876 - 328 pages
...was just what we should expect in the author of the ngth Psalm. He "had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments," the very theme, in every variety of expression, of this Psalm. He has... | |
 | Favell Lee Mortimer - 1876 - 476 pages
...forlorn and desolate. CHAPTER XXXII. THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD MAN. ' Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.' — Ezra, vii. 10. THE GOOD PRIEST. Ezra, vii. C-28. BUT the Lord now... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1876 - 194 pages
...Babylon to Jerusalem He undertook the expedition by divine command, having "prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." He had also the authority of king Artaxerxes, conveyed in Ezra vii.... | |
 | 1991 - 164 pages
...also described as a scribe "skilled in the law of Moses" (Ezra 7:6) who had "set his heart to study the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach [God's] statutes and ordinances in Israel" (Ezra 7:10). After a group of the people of Israel had returned... | |
 | Page H. Kelley - 1992 - 478 pages
...1ßÏÂÐ3 (11) (12) ÂÍË Ò» ÃÒÎ ÏÑ5 (13) Ãл¡ n-àë VPÂ? For Ezra set his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do (it), and to teach in Israel statute(s) and judgment(s). (Ezr. 7:10) Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise the end of the... | |
 | William M. Ramsay, William Ramsay - 1994 - 586 pages
...book of the law, Ezra came to the Jerusalem Jews with a mission, "for Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel" (7:10). With Ezra, Judaism became a religion of the law and... | |
 | Janice Knight - 1994 - 354 pages
...qualifications for the converted ministry: "a man cannot be a fit preacher unless he has Set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it, and to teach his statutes and ordinances in Israel."^ The preparationist mode of instruction is generally characterized... | |
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For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. 
