H0413–אֶל–el

Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

וְאֵלַ֣י (אֵלַ֣) 'e.La “to”

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.

אֵלֶ֑יךָ (אֵלֶ֑י) 'e.Lei. “to”

which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.

אֵלָ֨יו (אֵלָ֨י) 'e.La “to”

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [ergänzt: when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

אֶל־ 'el- “into”

Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

אֲלֵהֶ֔ם (אֲלֵ) 'a.le. “to”

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

אֵלַ֔י (אֵלַ֔) 'e.La “to”אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”וְאֶל־ (אֶל) 'el- “to”

Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֵלָ֑יו (אֵלָ֑י) 'e.La “into”

Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

אֶֽל־ 'el- “to”

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

אֶל־ 'el- “into”

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.

וְאֶל־ (אֶל) 'el- “to”וְאֶל־ (אֶל) 'el- “to”

Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”וְאֶל־ (אֶל) 'el- “to”

Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

אֲלֵהֶ֗ם (אֲלֵ) 'a.le. “to”

Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”

Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

אֶל־ 'el- “into”

I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Don't be you afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”וְאֶל־ (אֶל) 'el- “to”וְאֶל־ (אֶל) 'el- “to”

It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

אֶל־ 'el- “to”אֶל־ 'el- “to”