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Esdras 5:7-17

Listen to Esdras 5:7-17
7 la cual dec铆a:Al rey Dar铆o:Un cordial saludo.
8 Ponemos en conocimiento de Su Majestad que fuimos a la provincia de Jud谩, al templo del gran Dios, y vimos que se est谩 reconstruyendo con grandes piedras, y que sus paredes se est谩n recubriendo con madera. El trabajo se hace con esmero y avanza r谩pidamente.
9 A los dirigentes les preguntamos qui茅n los hab铆a autorizado a reconstruir ese templo y restaurar su estructura,
10 y c贸mo se llaman los que dirigen la obra, para comunic谩rselo por escrito a Su Majestad.
11 Ellos nos respondieron:芦Somos siervos del Dios del cielo y de la tierra, y estamos reconstruyendo el templo que fue edificado y terminado hace ya mucho tiempo por un gran rey de Israel.
12 Pero como nuestros antepasados provocaron a ira al Dios del cielo, 茅l los entreg贸 en manos de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, el caldeo que destruy贸 este templo y que llev贸 al pueblo cautivo a Babilonia.
13 禄Pero m谩s tarde, en el primer a帽o de su reinado, Ciro, rey de Babilonia, orden贸 que este templo de Dios fuera reconstruido.
14 Tambi茅n hizo sacar del templo de Babilonia los utensilios de oro y de plata que Nabucodonosor se hab铆a llevado del templo de Jerusal茅n y hab铆a puesto en el templo de Babilonia, y se los entreg贸 a Sesbasar, a quien hab铆a nombrado gobernador.
15 Ciro, pues, orden贸 a Sesbasar que tomara esos utensilios y los devolviera al templo de Jerusal茅n, y que reedificara en el mismo sitio el templo de Dios.
16 Entonces Sesbasar lleg贸 a Jerusal茅n y ech贸 los cimientos del templo de Dios. Desde entonces se ha estado trabajando en su reconstrucci贸n, pero a煤n no se ha terminado禄.
17 Ahora bien, si Su Majestad lo considera conveniente, pedimos que se investiguen los archivos donde est谩n las cr贸nicas de los reyes de Babilonia, para saber si es verdad que el rey Ciro orden贸 la reconstrucci贸n del templo de Dios en Jerusal茅n. Adem谩s, solicitamos que se nos d茅 a conocer la decisi贸n de Su Majestad con respecto a este asunto.

Esdras 5:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 5

This chapter relates, how that the people of the Jews were stirred up by the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah to set about the building of the temple again, notwithstanding the orders to the contrary from the deputy governors of the king of Persia; nor could the present ones cause them to cease from it; though it must be owned they behaved towards them in a better manner than the former ones did, Ezr 5:1-5, and who, upon the answers received from the Jews, wrote a letter to Darius, to know the truth of things; and in which they seem to state fairly the case of the Jews, as they had it from them, so far as they understood it, Ezr 5:6-17.

\\son of Iddo\\ The grandson of Iddo; for he was the son of Berechiah, Zec 1:1,

\\prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name\\ \\of the God of Israel\\; this they both did in the second year of Darius; the one began in the sixth month, and the other in the eighth month of the year, Hag 1:1, Zec 1:1, even "unto them"; or "against them", as De Dieu; reproving them for their sloth and neglect of building the temple, when they were careful enough to raise up goodly houses for themselves to dwell in; and for being intimidated by the command of the king of Persia, which only forbid the building of the city, that is, the walls of it, but not the temple any more than their own houses; and besides, there was now a new king, from whom they had not so much to fear. 20094-950306-0810-Ezr5.2

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