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Esdras 4:1
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Et les ennemis de Juda et de Benjamin entendirent que les fils de la transportation bâtissaient le temple de l'Éternel, le Dieu d'Israël;
Les ennemis de Juda et de Benjamin apprirent que les fils de la captivité bâtissaient un temple ŕ l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël.
Or les ennemis de Juda et de Benjamin ayant entendu que ceux qui étaient retournés de la captivité rebâtissaient le Temple ŕ l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël ;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the adversaries: These were the Samaritans, the descendants of the various nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants captive. Ezra 7:9, 1 Kings 5:4, 1 Kings 5:5, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 22:10, Nehemiah 4:1-11, Daniel 9:25, 1 Corinthians 16:9
children of the captivity: Heb. sons of the transportation, Ezra 1:11, *marg. Ezra 6:16, Ezra 6:19, Ezra 6:20, Ezra 10:7, Ezra 10:16, Daniel 5:13
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:41 - unto this day Ezra 4:10 - And the rest Nehemiah 6:9 - Their hands Zechariah 1:19 - scattered Matthew 2:8 - that Luke 9:52 - the Samaritans John 4:9 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin,.... The Samaritans, as appears from Ezra 4:2,
heard that the children of the captivity; the Jews, who had been in captivity seventy years, and were just come out of it, and still were not quite free, but under the jurisdiction and control of the king of Persia:
builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel; that they were going about it, and had laid the foundation of it, which might soon come to their ears, the distance not being very great. Josephus c says they heard the sound of the trumpets, and came to know the meaning of it.
c Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Adversaries - i. e., the Samaritans, a mixed race, partly Israelite but chiefly foreign, which had replaced to some extent the ancient inhabitants after they were carried into captivity by Sargon (see 2 Kings 17:6 note).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER IV
The Samaritans endeavour to prevent the rebuilding of the
temple, 1-5.
They send letters to Artaxerxes, against the Jews, 6-9.
A copy of the letter, 10-16.
He commands the Jews to cease from building the temple, which
they do; nor was any thing farther done in the work till the
second year of Darius, 17-24.
NOTES ON CHAP. IV
Verse Ezra 4:1. Now when the adversaries — These were the Samaritans, and the different nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants away into captivity, see Ezra 4:9-10.
