Ezr 4:1 | TSK | STEP | The adversaries, being not accepted in the building of the temple with the Jews, endeavour to hinder it. Their letter to Artaxerxes. The answer and decree of Artaxerxes. The building is hindered. the adversaries.These were the Samaritans, the descendants of the various nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants captive. children of the captivity. Heb. sons of the transportation.

Ezra 4:1

1 The adversaries, being not accepted in the building of the temple with the Jews, endeavour to hinder it.

7 Their letter to Artaxerxes.

17 The answer and decree of Artaxerxes.

23 The building is hindered.

the adversaries.These were the Samaritans, the descendants of the various nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants captive.

7:9; 1Ki 5:4,5; 1Ch 22:9,10; Ne 4:1-11; Da 9:25; 1Co 16:9

children of the captivity. Heb. sons of the transportation.

1:11; *marg:

6:16,19,20; 10:7,16; Da 5:13