extended <EZR7 -28> And hath {extended} mercy unto me before the <br>
king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty <br>
princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God <br>
[was] upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men <br>
to g<br>
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o up with me.<br>
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extended <EZR9 -9> For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not <br>
forsaken us in our bondage, but hath {extended} mercy unto us in <br>
the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set <br>
up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof,<br>
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 and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.<br>
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