Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Ye have nothing to do with us - Because the Samaritans had united idolatrous rites with the worship of Yahweh II Kings 17:29-41. To have allowed them a share in restoring the temple would have been destructive of all purity of religion.
As king Cyrus ... commanded us - The exact words of the edict gave the right of building exclusively to those who should "go up" from Babylonia to Judaea Ezra 1:3.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezra 4:3:
Isaiah 7:8
Isaiah 44:28
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