Ezr 4:12-24, Neh 2:8 | TSK | STEP | rebellious. bad city. set up. or, finished. joined. Chal. sewed together.

Ezra 4:12-24

rebellious.

15,19; 2Ki 18:20; 24:1; 2Ch 36:13; Jer 52:3; Eze 17:12-21

Lu 23:2-5; Ac 24:5; 1Th 5:22; 1Pe 2:13-15

bad city.

Ps 48:1,2; Isa 1:21-23; Lu 13:34

set up. or, finished.

Ne 1:3; Da 9:25

joined. Chal. sewed together.

if this city.

Ne 5:4; Ps 52:2; 119:69

pay. Chal. give. toll.

7:24; Mt 9:9; 17:25; Ro 13:6,7

revenue. or, strength.

have maintenance, etc. Chal. are salted with the salt of thepalace. Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life, (Ecclus. 39:26 or 31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt," meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship.

and it was.

Eze 33:31; Joh 12:5,6; 19:12-15

this city.

12; Ne 2:19; 6:6; Es 3:5-8; Da 6:4-13; Ac 17:6,7

moved. Chal. made. within the same. Chal. in the midstthereof. for which.

2Ki 24:20; 25:1,4; Jer 52:3-34

thou shalt have.

20; 2Sa 8:3; 1Ki 4:24

companions. Chal. societies.

7,9

Peace.

5:7; 7:12; Lu 10:5; Ac 23:26; Ro 1:7

at such a time.

10,11

I commanded. Chal. by me a decree is set. search.

15; 5:17; 6:1,2; De 13:14; Pr 25:2

and it is found.

2Ki 18:7; 24:20; Eze 17:13-19

made insurrection. Chal. lifted up itself.

mighty king.

1Ki 4:21,24; 1Ch 18:3; Ps 72:8

beyond.

16; Ge 15:18; Jos 1:3,4

toll.

1Ch 18:6,13; 19:19; 2Ch 9:14,23,24; 17:11; 26:7,8

Give ye, etc. Chal. Make a decree.

why should.

13; Es 3:8,9; 7:3,4

Rehum.

8,9,17

they went up.

Pr 4:16; Mic 2:1; Ro 3:15

force. Chal. arm.

So.

Ne 6:3,9; Job 20:5; 1Th 2:18

Darius.This was Darius Hystaspes, one of the seven princes who slew the usurper Smerdis: he ascended the throne of Persia, A.M. 3483, B.C. 521, and reigned 36 years.

5:5; 6:1; Hag 1:15

Nehemiah 2:8

the wall.

17; 3:1-32

the house.

3:7; 7:2

the king.

18; Ge 32:28; Ezr 5:5; 6:22; 7:6,9,27,28; Pr 21:1; Isa 66:14; Da 1:9

Ac 7:10; 26:22; 2Co 8:16