Ezra 5:3-5

3 At that time Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates went to them and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?”
4 They[a] also asked, “What are the names of those who are constructing this building?”
5 But the eye of their God was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received.

Cross References 4

  • 1. Ezra 6:6
  • 2. Ezra 6:6
  • 3. ver 9; S Ezra 1:3; Ezra 4:12
  • 4. S 2 Kings 25:28; Ezra 7:6,9,28; Ezra 8:18,22,31; Nehemiah 2:8,18; Psalms 33:18; Isaiah 66:14

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. See Septuagint; Aramaic "We" .
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