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Monday, July 21st, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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New King James Version

Ezra 6:7

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 on its site.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Liberality;   Rulers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Ezra;   Haggai;   Jew;   Persia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Government;   Leadership;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Magi;   Persia;   Regem Melech;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Governor;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Elder;   Government;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Sanhedrin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Persia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Per'sia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elder in the Old Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Leave the construction of the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.
Hebrew Names Version
let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Yehudim and the Zakenim of the Yehudim build this house of God in its place.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.
New Century Version
Do not bother the work on that Temple of God. Let the governor of the Jewish people and the Jewish elders rebuild this Temple where it was before.
New English Translation
Leave the work on this temple of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this temple of God in its proper place.
Amplified Bible
"Leave the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.
New American Standard Bible
"Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site.
World English Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Suffer ye the worke of this house of God, that the captaine of the Iewes and the Elders of the Iewes may buylde this house of God in his place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God in its designated place.
Berean Standard Bible
Leave the work on the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.
Contemporary English Version
Let the Jewish governor and leaders rebuild it where it stood before. And stop slowing them down!
Complete Jewish Bible
Let the work of this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Judeans and the leaders of the Judeans rebuild this house of God on its site.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't bother the workers. Don't try to stop the work on this Temple of God. Let the Jewish governor and the Jewish leaders rebuild it. Let them rebuild God's Temple in the same place it was in the past.
George Lamsa Translation
Let the work of the house of God alone: let the Jews and the Jewish exiles build the house of God in its place.
Good News Translation
and do not interfere with its construction. Let the governor of Judah and the Jewish leaders rebuild the Temple of God where it stood before.
Lexham English Bible
Leave this work of the house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God on its site.
Literal Translation
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let them worke in ye house of God, that the Debyte of ye Iewes and their Elders maye buylde the house of God in his place.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let the worke of the house of this God alone, that the captaine of the Iewes and their elders may builde the house of God in his place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
Let the worke of this house of God alone, let the gouernour of the Iewes, and the elders of the Iewes, build this house of God in his place.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now let alone the work of the house of God: let the rulers of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build that house of God on its place.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and suffre ye, that thilke temple of God be maad of the duyk of Jewis, and of the eldre men of hem; and that thei bilde that hows of God in his place.
Update Bible Version
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New Living Translation
Do not disturb the construction of the Temple of God. Let it be rebuilt on its original site, and do not hinder the governor of Judah and the elders of the Jews in their work.
New Life Bible
Leave this work on the house of God alone. Let the leaders of the Jews build this house of God again where it stood before.
New Revised Standard
let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
let alone the work of this house of God, - the pasha of Judah, and the elders of Judah, this house of God, shall build upon its place;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews, and by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its place.
Revised Standard Version
let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.
Young's Literal Translation
let alone the work of this house of God, let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God on its place.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Leave this work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

Contextual Overview

1 Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives, [fn] where the treasures were stored in Babylon. 2 And at Achmetha, [fn] in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus: 3 In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: "Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, 4 with three rows of heavy stones and one row of new timber. Let the expenses be paid from the king's treasury. 5 Also let the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple which is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and taken back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; and deposit them in the house of God"-- 6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the region beyond the River, and Shethar-Boznai, and your companions the Persians who are beyond the River, keep yourselves far from there. 7 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 on its site. 8 Moreover I issue a decree as to what you shall do for the elders of these Jews, for the building of this house of God: Let the cost be paid at the king's expense from taxes on the region beyond the River; this is to be given immediately to these men, so that they are not hindered. 9 And whatever they need--young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the request of the priests who are in Jerusalem--let it be given them day by day without fail, 10 that they may offer sacrifices of sweet aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let the work: Acts 5:38, Acts 5:39

Reciprocal: Isaiah 49:23 - kings

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive [fn] with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:4
There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:22
Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish; And the enemies of the LORD, Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongs days, But the years of the wicked will be shortened.
Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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