Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ¹  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ²  until a report could be dispatched ³  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

Ezra 7:16

7:16 along with all the silver and gold that you may collect ⁴  throughout all the province of Babylon and the contributions of the people and the priests for the temple of their God which is in Jerusalem.

[5:5]  ¹ tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

[5:5]  ² tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

[5:5]  ³ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.

[7:16]  ⁴ tn Aram “find.”