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     * the river of Ahava.
     # 15,21|
     * the hand.
     # 22; 7:9,28; Job 5:19-24; Ps 91:9-14; Isa 41:10-14; Ac 25:3; 26:22|
     * and he delivered.
       Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several
       hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four
       months in completing, encumbered with families and
       possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which
       would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others,
       that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the
       king, "that the hand of God was upon all them for good that
       seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them
       that forsook him," (ver. 22,) he determined to travel without
       a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any
       other, after his former avowed confidence in Him!  Having,
       therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought
       his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their
       enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived
       unmolested at Jerusalem.