Ezra 7:12

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statute...

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, eve...

I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my re...

Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem...