Ezra 5:11

Ezra 5:11

9 Then we asked those elders, and spoke thus to them: ^a“Who commanded you to build this temple and to finish these walls?”

10 We also asked them their names to inform you, that we might write the names of the men who were chief among them.

11 And thus they returned us an answer, saying: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the¹ temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built ^aand completed.

12 But ^abecause our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of ^bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and ^ccarried the people away to Babylon.

13 However, in the first year of ^aCyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to build this¹ house of God.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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We are the servants of the God of heaven - How simple, plain, and ingenuous is this confession! They were the servants of the God of heaven. How came they then into bondage! Why, they provoked the God of heaven - repeatedly sinned against him, and then he gave them into the hands of their enemies.

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