let the men: Ezra 7:16-18; Acts 24:17; 3 John 1:6-8
help him: Heb. lift him up, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10; Galatians 6:2
the freewill: Ezra 2:68-70; 1 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Chronicles 29:9, 1 Chronicles 29:17
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Ezra 1:4
Ezra 1:4
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