“Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.”
The leaders deliver the king\'s commissions to the royal governors and officials in the provinces west of the river, who give support to the people and the house of God. The delivery of royal commissions affirms the continuity between the imperial authorization and the ground-level implementation of the return. The support of provincial governors demonstrates that the imperial authorization carries weight throughout the administration. This verse shows that God\'s purposes are advanced when those in positions of authority align their actions with divine intentions.
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