Ezra 5:2
Helping - Encouraging the people to work by their presence, and assurance of success. It is supposed, the work had stopt about fifteen years. The first chapter of Haggai is the best comment on these two verses.
Restoration of the Temple Resumed
1 Then the prophet aHaggai and bZechariah the son of Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
2 So aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and bthe prophets of God were with them, helping them.
3 At the same time aTattenai the governor of the region beyond1 the River and Shethar-Boznai and their companions came to them and spoke thus to them: b“Who has commanded you to build this2 temple and finish this wall?”
4 aThen, accordingly, we told them the names of the men who were constructing this building.
5 But athe eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, so that they could not make them cease till a report could go to Darius. Then a bwritten answer was returned concerning this matter.
6 This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai sent:
The governor of the region beyond the River, and Shethar-Boznai, aand his companions, the Persians who were in the region beyond the River, to Darius the king.
The governor of the region beyond the River, and Shethar-Boznai, aand his companions, the Persians who were in the region beyond the River, to Darius the king.
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Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
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