Ezra 4:1-5

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

Zerubbabel.

1:5; 2:2; 3:2,12

Let us.

Pr 26:23-26; 2Co 11:13-15; Ga 2:4; 2Ti 3:8; 2Pe 2:1,2

we do.

2Ki 17:24,27-33,41

Esarhaddon.

10

Asnappar.

2Ki 19:37

Assur.

Ge 10:11; Ps 73:8; Isa 37:37

Assyria.

Ho 14:3

Asshur.

Ye have nothing.

Ne 2:20; Joh 4:22,23; Ac 8:21; Ro 9:4,5; 3Jo 1:9,10

king Cyrus.

1:1-3; 6:3-5; 2Ch 36:22,23; Isa 44:28; 45:1,4; Mt 10:16

weakened.

3:3; Ne 6:9; Isa 35:3,4; Jer 38:4

troubled.

Ne 4:7,8,11

hired.

Ps 2:1,2; Na 1:11; Ac 24:1-27

Darius.

24; 5:5-17; 6:1-18

Nehemiah 2:10

Sanballat.

19; 4:1-3,7; 6:1

Horonite.

Isa 15:5; Jer 48:5,34

the servant.

Pr 30:22; Ec 10:7

the Ammonite.

13:1

it grieved.

Nu 22:3,4; Ps 112:10; 122:6-9; Pr 27:4; Eze 25:6-8

Mic 7:9,10,16,17; Ac 4:2; 5:24; 19:26,27

there was come.

Ezr 4:4-23

Nehemiah 2:19

Sanballat.

10; 6:1,2

Geshem.

6:9

Gashmu. they.

Job 30:1; Ps 44:13,14; 79:4; 80:6; Jer 20:8; Mr 5:40; Heb 11:36

will ye rebel.

6:6; Ezr 4:15,16; Lu 23:2; Joh 19:12; Ac 24:5

Acts 5:17

the high.

4:26; Ps 2:1-3; Joh 11:47-49; 12:10,19

all.

4:1,2,6; 23:6-8

indignation. or, envy.

7:9; 13:45; 17:5; 1Sa 18:12-16; Job 5:2; Pr 14:30; 27:4; Ec 4:4

Mt 27:18; Ga 5:21; Jas 3:14-16; 4:5; 1Pe 2:1
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