Ezra 7:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷ Some of the Israelites came up to Jerusalem too. They included priests, Levites and musicians. They also included the temple servants and those who guarded the temple gates. It was in the seventh year that Artaxerxes was king.

⁸ Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king’s rule. ⁹ Ezra had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month. He arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month. That’s because God was gracious to him and helped him.