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Ezra 7:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And you, Ezra, according to  God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.

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Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach  its statutes and ordinances in Israel.


‘Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgement.


Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God #– #who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly #– #and it will be given to him.


For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should desire instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies.


When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd and had compassion  on them, because they were like sheep  without a shepherd. Then he began to teach them many things.


‘Therefore,’ he said to them, ‘every teacher of the law   who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.’


For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.


For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.


While they stood in their places,  they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day and spent another quarter of the day  in confession  and worship of the Lord their God.


You are sent by the king and his seven counsellors  to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your possession.


Therefore, you must stay away from that place, Tattenai governor of the region west of the River Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and your  colleagues, the officials in the region.


‘Of these,’ David said, ‘twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work on the Lord’s temple,  six thousand are to be officers and judges,


Above all, may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he puts you in charge of Israel so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.


All Israel heard about the judgement the king had given, and they stood in awe of the king because they saw that God’s wisdom  was in him to carry out justice.


We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.


and he said to them, ‘Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit  in him? ’


So Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you are.


Then the king of Assyria issued a command: ‘Send back one of the priests you deported.  Make him go and live there so he can teach them the requirements of the god of the land.’


Get up, for this matter is your responsibility,  and we support you. Be strong and take action! ’





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