Ezra 7:28

7:28 He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

Ezra 10:2

10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, ¹  addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying ²  foreign women from the local peoples. ³  Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. ⁴ 

[10:2]  ¹ tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew MSS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (’elam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (’olam, “eternity”) found in the MT.

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.

[10:2]  ³ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

[10:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “upon this.”