Ezra 4:5 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְסֹכְרִ֧ים	ve.so.khe.Rim	and [were] hiring	H7936 →
עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם	'a.lei.Hem	on them	H5921 →
יוֹעֲצִ֖ים	yo.'a.Tzim	counselors	H3289 →
לְהָפֵ֣ר	le.ha.Fer	to frustrate	H6565 →
עֲצָתָ֑ם	'a.tza.Tam	purpose their	H6098 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יְמֵ֗י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
כּ֚וֹרֶשׁ	Ko.resh	Cyrus	H3566 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
פָּרַ֔ס	pa.Ras	Persia	H6539 →
וְעַד־	ve.'ad-	and until	H5704 →
מַלְכ֖וּת	mal.Khut	[the] reign of	H4438 →
דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ	da.re.Ya.vesh	Darius	H1867 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
פָּרָֽס׃	pa.Ras	Persia	H6539 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Nahum 1:11
From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
leads to
- Nahum 1:9
  Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- 2 Chronicles 13:7
  Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.
- 2 Chronicles 32:15–19
  So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver…
- 1 Samuel 2:12
  Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
- 2 Kings 19:22–25
  Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Through
Ezra 5:5
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
leads to
- Psalms 33:18
  Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- Ezra 7:28
  and who has shown me favor before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officials. And because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, I took courage and gathered the…
- Ezra 7:6
  this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Nahum 1:11From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.Psalms 2:1–2Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.Acts 24:1–27Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.Daniel 10:1In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, and it concerned a great conflict. And the understanding of the message was given to him in a vision.Ezra 4:24Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.Daniel 8:3Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.

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What the record shows

Darius I (the Great) — attested in contemporary inscriptionundisputed
Behistun inscription; numerous royal inscriptions
Biblical figure (King of Persia, 522-486 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

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