Ezra 7:25
And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these laws to anyone who does not know them.
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye him that knoweth them not.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the wisdom
- Ezra 7:14; 1 Kings 3:28; 1 Chronicles 22:12; Psalm 19:7; Psalm 119:98–100; Proverbs 2:6; Proverbs 6:23; James 1:5; James 3:17, 18
- set magistrates
- Exodus 18:21–25; Deuteronomy 16:18; 1 Chronicles 23:4; 2 Chronicles 19:8–10
- beyond the river
- That is, "west of the Euphrates," which was beyond with regard to the king of Persia, who was on the east.
- Ezra 6:6
- teach ye
- Ezra 7:10; 2 Chronicles 17:7–9; Nehemiah 8:1–3, 7, 8; Nehemiah 9:3; Nehemiah 13:1–3; Malachi 2:7; Matthew 13:52; Matthew 23:2, 3; Mark 6:34; Romans 10:14–17