Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezra 7:6

"this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him." — Ezra 7:6 (ASV)

A ready scribe. —The “ready writer” of Psalm 45:1. Ezra was a priest, and this title is rightly placed before that of scribe in what follows; but here at the outset, when he first appears in history, the title is used that expressed his pre-eminent function, that of guarding and interpreting the law (Ezra 7:10).

All his request. —This anticipates the letter of Ezra 7:11; a series of supplementary notes intervenes.

According to the hand of the Lord his God upon him. —This is the full formula for that special providence over God’s servants which both Ezra and Nehemiah recognised.