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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezra/7-26.htm" title="Ezra 7:26">◄</a> Ezra 7:27 <a href="../ezra/7-28.htm" title="Ezra 7:28">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Blessed <i>be</i> the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put <i>such a thing</i> as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which <i>is</i> in Jerusalem:</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezra/7.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/ezra/7.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/ezra/7.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezra/7.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/ezra/7.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/ezra/7.htm" 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Temple.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/ezra/7.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/ezra/7-27.htm" title="Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:">Ezra 7:27</a></span>. <span class="ital">Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, </span>&c. — Ezra cannot proceed in his story without inserting this thankful acknowledgment to God’s goodness to him and the people. <span class="ital">Which hath put such a thing as this into the king’s heart — </span>God can and frequently does put things into men’s hearts which would not rise there of themselves, and that both by his providence and by his grace. If any good appear to be in our own hearts, or in the hearts of others, we must acknowledge it was God that put it there, and must bless him for it, for it is he <span class="ital">that worketh, in us both, to will and to do </span>that which is good.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/ezra/7.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>7:27,28 Two things Ezra blessed God for: 1. For his commission. If any good appear in our hearts, or in the hearts of others, we must own that God put it there, and bless him; it is he that worketh in us, both to will and to do that which is good. 2. For his encouragement: God has extended mercy to me. Ezra was a man of courage, yet he ascribed this not to his own heart, but to God's hand. If God give us his hand, we are bold and cheerful; if he withdraw it, we are weak as water. Whatever we are enabled to do for God and those around us, God must have all the glory.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezra/7.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>An abrupt transition from the words of Artaxerxes to those of Ezra. Compare a similar abrupt change in <a href="/ezra/6-6.htm">Ezra 6:6</a>. The language alters at the same time from Chaldee to Hebrew, continuing henceforth to be Hebrew until the close of the book. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/ezra/7.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Ezr 7:27, 28. Ezra Blesses God for This Favor.<p>27. Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers—This devout thanksgiving is in unison with the whole character of Ezra, who discerns the hand of God in every event, and is always ready to express a pious acknowledgment for the divine goodness. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/ezra/7.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/ezra/7.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers,.... This is Ezra's thanksgiving to God for the above decree: <p>which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart; which he rightly took to be of God, who wrought in him to will and to do: <p>to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; to provide for the ornamenting of it, for vessels in it, as well as for sacrifices; for as for the building of it, that was finished. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/ezra/7.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{p}</span> Blessed <i>be</i> the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put <i>such a thing</i> as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which <i>is</i> in Jerusalem:</span><p>(p) Thus Ezra gave thanks to God for giving him success in his business with the king.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezra/7.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">27</span>. <span class="ital">Blessed</span> be <span class="ital">the Lord God of our fathers</span>] R.V. <span class="bld">Blessed be the lord, the God of our fathers.</span> A similar phrase occurs in <a href="/ezra/8-28.htm" title="And I said to them, You are holy to the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD God of your fathers.">Ezra 8:28</a>, <a href="/ezra/10-11.htm" title="Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.">Ezra 10:11</a>. We find it elsewhere in <a href="/1_chronicles/29-18.htm" title="O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you:">1 Chronicles 29:18</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/20-6.htm" title="And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and rule not you over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you?">2 Chronicles 20:6</a>. Cf. <a href="/acts/3-13.htm" title="The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus; whom you delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.">Acts 3:13</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The thanksgiving of Ezra relates to the blessing which had been vouchsafed not to himself personally but to the whole nationality.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">hath put</span> into <span class="ital">the heart</span>] as in <a href="/nehemiah/2-12.htm" title="And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode on.">Nehemiah 2:12</a>; <a href="/nehemiah/7-5.htm" title="And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,">Nehemiah 7:5</a>; <a href="/1_kings/10-24.htm" title="And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.">1 Kings 10:24</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">to beautify</span>] This effect of the king’s bounty would result from the general grant contained in <a href="/context/ezra/7-14.htm" title="For as much as you are sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand;...">Ezra 7:14-20</a>. The actual adornment of the Temple had not been specified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">27, 28</span>. Ezra’s Thanksgiving<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Abrupt transition from the letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra’s thanks giving. Compare chap. <a href="/ezra/6-8.htm" title="Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, immediately expenses be given to these men, that they be not hindered.">Ezra 6:8</a>, the transition from the quotation of Cyrus’s decree to the words of Darius.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>These two verses contain Ezra’s outburst of praise to God for the favours conceded by Darius.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The Hebrew is here resumed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezra/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 27.</span> - Having concluded the important document, which he has transcribed, and not translated, and which is consequently in the Chaldee dialect, Ezra now resumes the use of the more sacred Hebrew, and henceforth employs it uninterruptedly to the close of his narrative. The form of his thanksgiving a little resembles that of David in <a href="/1_chronicles/29-10.htm">1 Chronicles 29:10</a>. <span class="cmt_word">The Lord God of</span> <span class="cmt_word">our fathers</span> is an unusual phrase, only elsewhere employed by David (<a href="/1_chronicles/29-18.htm">1 Chronicles 29:18</a>) and Jehoshaphat (<a href="/2_chronicles/20-6.htm">2 Chronicles 20:6</a>). "<span class="accented">God</span> of our fathers" is more common, being found in Deuteronomy (<a href="/deuteronomy/26-7.htm">Deuteronomy 26:7</a>) and Acts (<a href="/acts/3-13.htm">Acts 3:13</a>; <a href="/acts/5-30.htm">Acts 5:30</a>), as well as in Chronicles frequently. <span class="cmt_word">Which hath put such a thought as this in the king's heart.</span> Compare Ezra 1:1. and Ezra 6:22. All thoughts favorable to the Jews are regarded by Ezra as impressed upon the hearts of heathen kings by the direct action of God. To beautify. Or "adorn." Ezra gathers from the general tenor of the king's letter that the adornment of the temple is his main object (see comment on ver. 17). Ezra 7:27<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/ezra/7.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>This royal commission granted to the Jews all they could possibly desire from the heathen governors of the country, for the establishment and furtherance of their civil and religious polity. By granting these privileges, Artaxerxes was not only treading in the footsteps of Cyrus and Darius Hystaspes, but even going beyond these princes in granting to the Jews a jurisdiction of their own. Without a magistrate who was one of themselves, the Jewish community could not well prosper in their own land; for the social and religious life of Israel were so closely connected, that heathen magistrates, however well-intentioned, were incapable of exercising a beneficial influence upon the welfare of the Jews. Hence Ezra, having thus reported the royal commission, adds a thanksgiving to God for having put such a thing into the king's heart, namely, to beautify the house of the Lord, and for having granted him favour before the king and his counsellors. The sentence הטּה ועלי הטּה e is a continuation of the preceding infinitive sentence in the tempus finit. ל before כּל־שׂרי is the ל comprehensive. Ezra names the beautifying of the house of God as the occasion of his thanksgiving, not only because this formed the chief matter of the royal favour, but also because the re-establishment of divine worship was the re-establishment of the moral and religious life of the community. "And I felt myself strengthened, and gathered together (so that I gathered together) the heads of Israel to go up with me (to Jerusalem)." Ezra assembled the heads, i.e., of houses, as fellow-travellers, because their decision would be a rule for the families at the head of which they stood. 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