Ezra 5:9
7 The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.
8 Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
10 We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
11 And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- KJV
- Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
- WEB
- Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
- ASV
- Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- DARBY
- Then asked we those elders: thus we said to them, Who gave you orders to build this house and to complete this wall?
- BLB
- Then we asked these elders, [and] thus we spoke to them: “Who made for you⁺ a decree to build this house and to finish this wall?”
- ÅB
- Så spurte vi de eldste der og sa til dem: Hvem har gitt dere befaling til å bygge dette hus og fullføre denne mur?
- OTB
- Vi spurte de eldste og sa til dem: ‘Hvem ga dere fullmakt til å gjenoppbygge dette tempelet og fullføre denne strukturen?’
- B1930
- Så spurte vi de eldste der og sa til dem: Hvem har gitt eder befaling til å bygge dette hus og fullføre denne mur?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezra 5:3–4
At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
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