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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezra 7:23

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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7:23 the God of heaven: This is the title by which the Jews had referred to the Lord (5:11-12) and that Cyrus had used (1:2). The Persian king probably believed, like others in the ancient Near East, that each country’s god or gods controlled their territory. Artaxerxes did not want to risk bringing God’s anger against the realm of the king and undermine the peace of his empire by failing to provide for the God of Jerusalem (7:19) the worship that he required.
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