extended <EZR7 -28> And hath {extended} mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God [was] upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to g

o up with me.

extended <EZR9 -9> For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath {extended} mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof,

 and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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