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Ezra 5:13 KJV
Ezra · chapter 5 · verse 13
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.Ezra 5:13 · King James Version
Ezra 5:13 in context
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.
14And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- BabylonBabel{Babel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire}H895 →
- decreeṭᵉʻêmproperly, flavorH2942 →
- firstchadas card. oneH2298 →
- CyrusKôwresh{Koresh , the Persian king}H3567 →
- buildbᵉnâʼto buildH1124 →
- housebayith{a house }H1005 →
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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