Ezra 7:7-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants^(A) accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

⁸ Ezra^[a] came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king. ⁹ He began the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month^(B) and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month^(C) since the gracious hand of his God was on him.^(D)