Esdras 5:4

4 Ainda lhes perguntaram: Quais são os nomes dos homens que constroem este edifício?

Esdras 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 5:4

Then said we unto them after this manner
In answer to their questions; namely, Ezra and other Jews replied; for though Ezra is said after this to come from Babylon in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, he might go thither on some business, and then return again at that time; some indeed think these are the words of Tatnai and those with him; so Ben Melech, which seems to be favoured by ( Ezra 4:10 ) , and by reading the words with an interrogation, as we do; Aben Ezra says they are either the words of the builders, or of the scribes, the secretaries that came to question them; but they are the words of the former, as order requires, or otherwise no answer would be returned, at least as expressed; and the next clause may be read without an interrogation, and the sense be, that they told them not only that they acted according to an edict of Cyrus king of Persia, for this was said, as appears from ( Ezra 5:13 ) , but they declared

what were the names of the men that did make this building;
or employed them in it, namely, Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the chief men of the Jews; they made no scruple of telling them who they were; neither ashamed of their masters nor of their work, nor afraid of any ill consequences following hereafter.

Esdras 5:4 In-Context

2 Então se levantaram Zorobabel, filho de Sealtiel, e Jesuá, filho de Jozadaque, e começaram a edificar a casa de Deus, que está em Jerusalém; e com eles estavam os profetas de Deus, que os ajudavam.

3 Naquele tempo vieram ter com eles Tatenai, o governador da província a oeste do Rio, e Setar-Bozenai, e os seus companheiros, e assim lhes perguntaram: Quem vos deu ordem para edificar esta casa, e completar este muro?

4 Ainda lhes perguntaram: Quais são os nomes dos homens que constroem este edifício?

5 Os olhos do seu Deus, porém, estavam sobre os anciãos dos judeus, de modo que eles não os impediram, até que o negócio se comunicasse a Dario, e então chegasse resposta por carta sobre isso.

6 A cópia da carta que Tatenai, o governador da província a oeste do Rio, e Setar-Bozenai, e os seus companheiros, os governadores, que estavam deste lado do Rio, enviaram ao rei Dario;