* 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.