Ezra 5:12

12 ¹But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he ²gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.

Ezra 5:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 5:12

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto
wrath
By their idolatries; which accounts for it how it was that they who were the servants of the great God of heaven and earth, and this temple built for the honour of his name, were not preserved by him; but they were carried captive, and this house left desolate: it was for their sins for which

he (God) gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away
into Babylon;
see ( 2 Chronicles 36:19 2 Chronicles 36:20 ) .

Ezra 5:12 In-Context

10 We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.

11 And this was their reply to us: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

12 But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.

13 However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.

14 And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 36:16, 17
• 2. 2 Kings 24:2; See 2 Kings 25:8-11