^7 (A)And some of the sons of Israel and some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

⁸ He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. ⁹ For on the first of the first month ^[a]he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, ^(B)because the good hand of his God was upon him.