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Ezra 6:7

in Ezra 6

Leave this work on the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

KJV

Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.

This verse in Ezra 6

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You must stay away from that place

on Ezra 6:6-8

Darius orders the governor and his associates to stay away and let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild the house of God. He funds the work, paying the cost in full from the royal treasury. A king who could have shut the project down becomes its paymaster.

This site's exposition

on its original site

The words on its original site echo Cyrus's instruction as the elders quoted it at 5:15, and Darius now confirms it. Their governor stands beside the elders. Adam Clarke names Zerubbabel as the civil governor who led the rebuilding with Jeshua the high priest.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers5 voices

A commentator

Augustine of Hippo

Commentary (church-history corpus) · Written before 430.

proposed

Ezra, the priest of God, restored the law, which had been burned by the Chaldeans in the archives of the temple. For indeed he was full of the same spirit with which the Scriptures had previously been filled. [De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, 2.33]

A commentator

Eusebius of Caesarea

The Church History of Eusebius, Book 5 · Written before 339.

proposed

And this was nothing wonderful for God to do, who, in the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, when the Scriptures had been destroyed, and the Jews had returned to their own country after seventy years, afterwards, in the time of Artaxerxes, king of the Persians, inspired Ezra the priest, of the tribe of Levi, to relate all the words of the former prophets, and to restore to the people the legislation of Moses. [quoting Irenaeus] Such are the words of Irenaeus.

A commentator

Tertullian

On the Apparel of Women Book I · Written before 220.

proposed

If (Noah) had not had this (conservative power) by so short a route, there would (still) be this (consideration) to warrant our assertion of (the genuineness of) this Scripture: he could equally have renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration, after it had been destroyed by the violence of the deluge, as, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document of the Jewish literature is generally agreed to have been restored through Ezra.

A commentator

Jerome

The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary · Written before 420.

proposed

We must certainly understand by this day the time of the composition of the history, whether you prefer the view that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch or that Ezra re-edited it. In either case I make no objection. The question now is whether the words unto this day are to be referred to the time of publishing or writing the books, and if so it is for him to show, now that so many years have rolled away since that day, that either the idols hidden beneath the oak have been found, or the grave of Moses discovered; for he obstinately maintains that what does not happen so long as the point of time indicated by until and unto has not been attained, begins to be when that point has been reached.

A commentator

Irenaeus

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 3 · Written before 202.

proposed

And there was nothing astonishing in God having done this,-He who, when, during the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, the Scriptures had been corrupted, and when, after seventy years, the Jews had returned to their own land, then, in the times of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, inspired Esdras the priest, of the tribe of Levi, to recast all the words of the former prophets, and to re-establish with the people the Mosaic legislation.
2 more voices on this verse

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Let the work of this house of God alone,.... Suffer them to go on with it, and do not hinder them; it looks, by these expressions, as if he had some suspicion or hint given him that they were inclined to molest them, or that there were some that stirred them up to it, and were desirous of it: let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God in his place; where it formerly stood; that is, go on with the building of it.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus was the wrath of the enemy made to praise God and the remainder thereof did he restrain. (2.) He orders them out of his own revenue to assist the builders with money, [1.] For carrying on the building,

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • שְׁבֻ֕קוּleave!

    shevukuH7662 →

  • לַעֲבִידַ֖ת<obj.> [the] work of

    laavidatH5673 →6 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1005 →44 times

  • אֱלָהָ֣א<the> God

    ʾelaha'H426 →95 times

  • דֵ֑ךְthis

    dekhH1791 →13 times

  • פַּחַ֤ת[the] governor of

    pachatH6347 →10 times

  • יְהוּדָיֵא֙Jews the

    yehudaye'H3062 →10 times

  • וּלְשָׂבֵ֣יand <to> [the] elders of

    ulesaveiH7868 →5 times

  • יְהוּדָיֵ֔אJews the

    yehudaye'H3062 →10 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1005 →44 times

  • אֱלָהָ֥א<the> God

    ʾelaha'H426 →95 times

  • דֵ֖ךְthis

    dekhH1791 →13 times

  • יִבְנ֥וֹןlet them build

    yivnonH1124 →22 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5922 →104 times

  • אַתְרֵֽהּ׃place its

    ʾatrehH870 →8 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezra

Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Augustine of Hippo, Commentary (church-history corpus); Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 5; Eusebius of Caesarea, The Church History of Eusebius, Book 5; Irenaeus, Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 3; Jerome, The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Tertullian, On the Apparel of Women Book I.