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Ezra 5:11 KJV
Ezra · chapter 5 · verse 11
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.Ezra 5:11 · King James Version
Ezra 5:11 in context
9Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
10We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
12But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
13But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- returnedtûwbspecifically to replyH8421 →
- servantsʻăbada servantH5649 →
- answerpithgâma word, answer, letter or decreeH6600 →
- sayingʼămar{to say }H560 →
- heavenshâmayin{the sky (as aloftH8065 →
- earthʼăraʻthe earthH772 →
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We have here, I. The cognizance which their neighbours soon took of the reviving of this good work. A jealous eye, it seems, they had upon them, and no sooner did the Spirit of God stir up the friends of the temple to appear for it than the evil spirit stirred up its enemies to appear against it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-17