Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

Beyond the river

Ezra the priest

General references

Bible References

Beyond the river

Ezra 4:16
We do certify the king that, if, this city, be built, and, the walls thereof, finished, for that very reason, portion Beyond the River, shalt thou have none.
Ezra 6:6
Now, therefore, Tattenai pasha Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates, the Apharsachites, who are Beyond the River, - be ye far from thence:

Ezra the priest

Ezra 7:6
this Ezra, came up out of Babylon, he, being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh God of Israel had given, - and the king gave him, according to the hand of Yahweh his God upon him, all his request.

General references

Deuteronomy 32:31
For, not like our Rock, is their rock, Our enemies themselves, being judges;