Ezra 7:25-27

English Standard Version Anglicised

²⁵ “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, ^(A)appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. ^(B)And those who do not know them, you shall teach. ²⁶ Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgement be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”

^27 (C)Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, ^(D)who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,