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Ezra 7:8
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king's rule.
Ezra 7:8 · Bible in Basic English
Ezra 7:8 in other translations
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.
He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
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In context
5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.
7 And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king's rule.
9 For, starting his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, he came to Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.
10 For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.
11 Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:
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