31 ¶ Then we departed from the river of Ahavah on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as laid [a]wait by the way.

32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

33 And on the fourth day was the silver weighed, and the gold, and the vessel, in the house of our God, by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the Priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui the [b]Levites,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:31 This declared that their journey was full of danger, and yet God delivered them according to their prayer.
  2. Ezra 8:33 This was a token of a good conscience and of his integrity, that he would have witnesses of his fidelity.

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