Ezra 7:25-28

25“You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, 1appoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and you may 2teach anyone who is ignorant of them. 263Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him strictly, whether for death or for 4banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment.”

27Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, 5who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, 28and 6has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to 7the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered 8leading men from Israel to go up with me.