Ezra 7:9
He had begun the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.

I told them.

Exodus 4:15
You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.

Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

2 Samuel 14:3, 19
Then go to the king and speak these words to him." And Joab put the words in her mouth. . . .

Jeremiah 1:9
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: "Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.

Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must return to you, but you must not return to them.

the Nethinims

Ezra 2:43, 58
The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, . . .

Ezra 7:7
So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.

ministers

Numbers 8:22-26
After that, the Levites came to perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. So they did to the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses. . . .

Numbers 18:6
Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

1 Chronicles 23:3-6, 26-32
The Levites thirty years of age and older were counted, and the total number of men was 38, 000. . . .

Titus 1:5
The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.