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Esdra 5:8

Listen to Esdra 5:8
8 Il re sappia che noi siamo andati nella provincia della Giudea, alla Casa del grande Iddio, la quale si edifica di pietre pulite; e già i legnami son posti in su le pareti; e questa opera si fa in fretta, e si avanza nelle mani di quella gente.

Esdra 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 5:8

Be it known unto the king
This seems to have been the usual form of beginning a letter to a king in those days, ( Ezra 4:12 ) that we went into the province of Judea; which from a kingdom was reduced to a province, and was become a part of the Babylonian, now Persian, monarchy, see ( Ezra 2:1 ) to the house of the great God; as the Jews called the Lord their God; and even the Heathens had a notion that there was one supreme God, though they worshipped inferior ones; and some had a notion that Jehovah the God of the Jews was he:

which is builded with great stones;
marble stones; as Jarchi F17, stones of rolling, as it may be rendered; which, according to Aben Ezra, were so large and heavy, that they could not be carried, but were obliged to roll them:

and timber is laid in the walls,
cedar wood, as Aben Ezra interprets it, for beams, for flooring and raftering; or rather, is put upon the walls, for the lining and wainscoting of them, which was done with cedar wood:

and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands;
and, unless timely prevented, will soon be finished.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 15. 3.
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Esdra 5:8 In-Context

6 Tenor delle lettere, le quali Tattenai, governatore di qua dal fiume, e Setarboznai, ed i suoi colleghi Afarsechei, che erano di qual dal fiume, mandarono al re Dario;
7 nelle quali gli mandarono il fatto. E così era scritto in esse: Al re Dario ogni salute.
8 Il re sappia che noi siamo andati nella provincia della Giudea, alla Casa del grande Iddio, la quale si edifica di pietre pulite; e già i legnami son posti in su le pareti; e questa opera si fa in fretta, e si avanza nelle mani di quella gente.
9 Avendo ciò veduto, abbiamo domandato a quegli Anziani, e abbiam loro detto così: Chi vi ha ordinato di edificar questa Casa, e di rifar queste mura?
10 Abbiamo loro eziandio domandati i nomi di coloro, per farteli assapere: acciocchè ti scrivessimo i nomi di quelli che sono i principali fra loro.
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