Ezra 7:25-28
25“And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, aappoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and to anyone who does not know the laws, you shall bmake them known. 26“aWhoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be done to him with all diligence, whether for death or for 1banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment.”
Yahweh Put This in the King’s Heart
27Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, awho has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, 28and ahas extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to bthe hand of Yahweh my God upon me, and I gathered 1chief men from Israel to go up with me.