Ezra 8:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they supported the people and the house of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's lieutenants and to the governors west of the River, and they aided the people and God's house.

American Standard Version (1901)

And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.

Common English Bible

They also delivered the king’s orders to the royal chief administrators and governors of the province Beyond the River, who supported the people and God’s house.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then they gave the edicts of the king to the rulers who served in the sight of the king, and to the governors beyond the river, and they exalted the people and the house of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they gave the king's edicts to the lords that were from the king's court, and the governors beyond the river. And they furthered the people and the house of God.

Ezra 8:36 Cross References

Ezra 6:13

Then, according to the word sent by King Darius, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what King Darius had ordered.

Nehemiah 2:7

Then I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may grant me passage until I arrive in Judah,

Esther 3:12

Then the king’s secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 9:3

All the officials of the provinces, the satraps and the governors, and the royal officials were supporting the Jews because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

Acts 18:27

And when he wished to cross over to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. On his arrival he greatly helped those who through grace had become believers,

Revelation 12:16

But the earth came to the help of the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.