Esra 5:1-7

1 Und Haggai, der Prophet, und Sacharja, der Sohn Iddos, die Propheten, weissagten den Juden, die in Juda und in Jerusalem waren; im Namen des Gottes Israels weissagten sie ihnen.
2 Da machten sich Serubbabel, der Sohn Schealtiels, und Jeschua, der Sohn Jozadaks, auf und fingen an, das Haus Gottes in Jerusalem zu bauen, und mit ihnen die Propheten Gottes, welche sie unterstützten.
3 In jener Zeit kamen Tatnai, der Landpfleger diesseit des Stromes, und Schethar-Bosnai und ihre Genossen zu ihnen und sprachen zu ihnen also: Wer hat euch Befehl gegeben, dieses Haus zu bauen und diese Mauer zu vollenden?
4 Darauf sagten wir ihnen, welches die Namen der Männer wären, die diesen Bau ausführten.
5 Aber das Auge ihres Gottes war über den Ältesten der Juden, daß sie ihnen nicht wehrten, bis die Sache an Darius gelangte und man dann einen Brief darüber zurückschickte.
6 Abschrift des Briefes, den Tatnai, der Landpfleger jenseit des Stromes, und Schethar-Bosnai und seine Genossen, die Apharsakiter, die jenseit des Stromes wohnten, an den König Darius sandten.
7 Sie sandten einen Bericht an ihn, und also war darin geschrieben: Darius, dem König, allen Frieden!

Esra 5:1-7 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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