Ezr 6:14, Hag 2:4-9, 20-23, Zec 3-4, 2Cor 1:24 | TSK | STEP | And the elders. through. finished it. according. commandment. Chal. decree. Cyrus. Artaxerxes.This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed [Makrocheir,] or Longimanus, or in Persian, {Ardsheer deeraz dest,} "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, A.M. 3540, B.C. 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition.

Ezra 6:14

And the elders.

3:8; 4:3

through.

5:1,2; Hag 1:12-14; 2:2-15; Zec 2:1-4:14; 6:1-15

finished it.

Zec 4:9

according.

Isa 44:28; Hag 1:8

commandment. Chal. decree. Cyrus.

13; 1:1-4; 4:24; 5:13

Artaxerxes.This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed [Makrocheir,] or Longimanus, or in Persian, {Ardsheer deeraz dest,} "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, A.M. 3540, B.C. 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition.

7:1

Haggai 2:4-9

now.

De 31:23; Jos 1:6,9; 1Ch 22:13; 28:20; Zec 8:9; 1Co 16:13; Eph 6:10

2Ti 2:1

for.

1:13; Ex 3:12; Jud 2:18; 1Sa 16:18; 2Sa 5:10; Mr 16:20; Ac 7:9

2Ti 4:17

to the.

Ex 29:45,46; 33:12-14; 34:8,10

so.

Nu 11:25-29; Ne 9:20,30; Ps 51:11,12; Isa 63:11-14; Zec 4:6

Joh 14:16,17

fear.

Jos 8:1; 2Ch 20:17; Isa 41:10,13; Zec 8:13,15; Mt 28:5; Ac 27:24

Re 1:17

Yet.

21,22; Heb 12:26-28

it is.

Ps 37:10; Isa 10:25; 29:17; Jer 51:33; Heb 10:37

and I.

Isa 34:4; Jer 4:23-26; Eze 38:20; Joe 2:30-32; 3:16; Mt 24:29,30

Mr 13:24-26; Lu 21:25-27; Ac 2:19; Heb 12:26; Re 6:12-17; 8:5-12

Re 11:9; 6:2-17

I will shake.

Eze 21:27; Da 2:44,45; 7:20-25; Joe 3:9-16; Lu 21:10,11

and the.

Ge 3:15; 22:18; 49:10; Zec 9:9,10; Lu 2:10,11,27,46; Ro 15:9-15

Ga 3:8

I will fill.

Ex 40:34,35; 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14; Ps 80:1; Mal 3:1; Lu 19:47; 20:1

Lu 21:38; Joh 1:14; 2:13-17; 7:37-39; 10:23-38; Col 2:9

1Ki 6:20-35; 1Ch 29:14-16; Ps 24:1; 50:10-12; Isa 60:13,17

glory.

Ps 24:7-10; Joh 1:14; 2Co 3:9,10; 1Ti 3:16; Jas 2:1

saith.Whoever compares the description of the temple of Solomon, in the first book of Kings, with the most splendid accounts of the second temple, however adorned with costly stones and other magnificent decorations in after ages, must perceive that the former, being wholly overlaid with pure gold, was incomparably more glorious than the latter in its greatest magnificence; and the Jews themselves allow that the ark of the covenant, fire from heaven, the {Urim} and {Thummim,} the anointing oil, the {Shechinah,} or visible glory, and the spirit of prophecy, which distinguished the former temple, were wanting in this. In nothing, in fact, could the second temple excel the first in glory, except in the personal presence of "the Desire of all nations," He who is "the glory of the Lord," and the true temple, "in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily," and who was the true {Shechinah,} of which that of Solomon's temple was merely a type. And if it be admitted that the presence of the promised Messiah was intended, then it will follow that "Jesus of Nazareth" was He; for the second temple, in which as the "Prince of peace" he preached peace and reconciliation with God, has been utterly destroyed for upwards of seventeen hundred years.

give.

Ps 85:8,9; Isa 9:6,7; 57:18-21; Mic 5:5; Lu 2:14; Joh 14:27

Ac 10:36; Eph 2:14-17; Col 1:19-21

Haggai 2:20-23

in the.

Zerubbabel.

1:1,14; 1Ch 3:19; Ezr 2:2; 5:2; Zec 4:6-10

I will.

6,7; Ps 46:6; Eze 26:15; 38:19,20; Joe 3:16; Heb 12:26,27

Re 16:17-19

overthrow.

Isa 60:12; Eze 21:27; Da 2:34,35,44,45; 7:25-27; 8:25; Mic 5:8,15

Zep 3:8; Zec 10:11; 12:2-5; 14:3; Mt 24:7; Re 11:15

and I will overthrow the chariots.

Ex 14:17,28; 15:4,19; Ps 46:9; 76:6; Eze 39:20; Mic 5:10; Zec 4:6

Zec 9:10

every.

Jud 7:22; 1Sa 14:16; 2Ch 20:22; Isa 9:19; 19:2

O Zerubbabel.It seems evident that the Messiah is here described under the name of Zerubbabel, as elsewhere under that of David, whose kingdom, after these mighty convulsions, should supersede all others.

and will.

So 8:6; Jer 22:24; Joh 6:27; 2Ti 2:19

for.

Isa 42:1; 43:10; 49:1-3; Zec 4:6-14; Mt 12:18; 1Pe 2:4