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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezra 8:31 Catholic Bible: It was on the twelfth day of the first month that we left the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. Our God was with us and protected us from enemy attacks and from ambush as we traveled. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ezra/8-31.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ezra/8-31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ezra/8-31.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezra/1.htm">Ezra</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezra/8.htm">Chapter 8</a> > Verse 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezra/8-30.htm" title="Ezra 8:30">◄</a> Ezra 8:31 <a href="../ezra/8-32.htm" title="Ezra 8:32">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ezra/8.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ezra/8.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It was on the twelfth day of the first month that we left the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. Our God was with us and protected us from enemy attacks and from ambush as we traveled. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezra/8.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then we left the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes along the way.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ezra/8.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />On the twelfth day of the first month, we left the Ahava River and started for Jerusalem. Our God watched over us, and as we traveled along, he kept our enemies from ambushing us. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezra/8.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />We set out from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God remained over us, and he protected us from enemies and robbers along the way.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ezra/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.</p><p class="hdg">the river of Ahava</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/8-15.htm">Ezra 8:15,21</a> And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to Ahava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there. . . . </p><p class="hdg">the hand</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/8-22.htm">Ezra 8:22</a> For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/7-9.htm">Ezra 7:9,28</a> For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God upon him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/5-19.htm">Job 5:19-24</a> In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/91-9.htm">Psalm 91:9-14</a> Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/41-10.htm">Isaiah 41:10-14</a> Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/25-3.htm">Acts 25:3</a> Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/26-22.htm">Acts 26:22</a> But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/8-22.htm">Ezra 8:22</a> For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.</p><p class="hdg2">,) he determined to travel without a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any other, after his former avowed confidence in Him! Having, therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived unmolested at Jerusalem.)</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ezra/8.htm">Priests to Guard the Offerings</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">30</span>And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of our God. <span class="reftext">31</span><span class="highl">Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.</span><div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/7-9.htm">Ezra 7:9</a></span><br />For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God upon him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/8-15.htm">Ezra 8:15</a></span><br />And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to Ahava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/8-21.htm">Ezra 8:21</a></span><br />And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/8-22.htm">Ezra 8:22</a></span><br />For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/66-14.htm">Isaiah 66:14</a></span><br />You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall be angry with his enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezra/8-21.htm">Ahava</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-34.htm">Bandit</a> <a href="/ezra/5-14.htm">Delivered</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-33.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/ezra/8-22.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/ezra/7-9.htm">First</a> <a href="/ezra/8-26.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezra/8-30.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/4-39.htm">Journeyed</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/ezra/7-9.htm">Month</a> <a href="/ezra/8-21.htm">River</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-3.htm">Twelfth</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/13-10.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/ezra/8-22.htm">Way</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezra/8-15.htm">Ahava</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-11.htm">Bandit</a> <a href="/ezra/8-36.htm">Delivered</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-19.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/esther/3-10.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/ezra/9-2.htm">First</a> <a href="/ezra/8-33.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezra/8-32.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/job/38-16.htm">Journeyed</a> <a href="/nehemiah/10-32.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/ezra/10-9.htm">Month</a> <a href="/ezra/8-36.htm">River</a> <a href="/esther/3-7.htm">Twelfth</a> <a href="/esther/4-5.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/ezra/9-2.htm">Way</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/ezra/8-31.htm">Ezra 8:31 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: Ahava along ambushes and bandits by Canal day delivered enemies enemy first from go God hand he Jerusalem journeyed month of On our out over protected river set the Then to twelfth us was way we<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ezra/8-31.htm">OT History: Ezra 8:31 Then we departed from the river Ahava (Ezr. 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