He had begun the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was upon him.
this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had give
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gate
I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. “Let us start rebuilding,”