Esdras 5:8

La Bible Ostervald

Que le roi soit averti que nous sommes allés dans la province de Juda, à la maison du grand Dieu, que l'on bâtit en pierres de taille; le bois est posé sur les murs, et cet édifice se bâtit rapidement, et s'avance entre leurs mains.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Qu'il soit connu du roi que nous sommes all�s dans la province de Juda, � la maison du grand Dieu; et elle se b�tit avec de grandes pierres, et le bois se pose dans les murs; et cet ouvrage se poursuit avec z�le et prosp�re dans leurs mains.

Louis Segond (1910)
Que le roi sache que nous sommes all�s dans la province de Juda, � la maison du grand Dieu. Elle se construit en pierres de taille, et le bois se pose dans les murs; le travail marche rapidement et r�ussit entre leurs mains.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Que le Roi soit averti que nous sommes all�s en la province de Jud�e, vers la maison du grand Dieu, laquelle on b�tit de grosses pierres, et m�me la charpenterie est pos�e aux parois, et cet �difice se b�tit en diligence, et s'avance entre leurs mains.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the province: Ezra 2:1, Nehemiah 7:6, Nehemiah 11:3, Esther 1:1, Esther 1:22

the great God: Ezra 1:2, Ezra 1:3, Ezra 6:10, Ezra 7:23, Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 32:31, Psalms 145:3, Daniel 2:47, Daniel 3:26, Daniel 4:2, Daniel 4:34-37, Daniel 6:26

great stones: Chal, stones of rolling, Mark 13:1, Mark 13:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:12 - masons Ezra 7:14 - thy God Nehemiah 1:3 - the province Nehemiah 4:7 - heard Haggai 1:14 - and they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be it known unto the king,.... This seems to have been the usual form of beginning a letter to a king in those days, Ezra 4:12 that we went into the province of Judea; which from a kingdom was reduced to a province, and was become a part of the Babylonian, now Persian, monarchy, see Ezra 2:1 to the house of the great God; as the Jews called the Lord their God; and even the Heathens had a notion that there was one supreme God, though they worshipped inferior ones; and some had a notion that Jehovah the God of the Jews was he:

which is builded with great stones; marble stones; as Jarchi q, stones of rolling, as it may be rendered; which, according to Aben Ezra, were so large and heavy, that they could not be carried, but were obliged to roll them:

and timber is laid in the walls, cedar wood, as Aben Ezra interprets it, for beams, for flooring and raftering; or rather, is put upon the walls, for the lining and wainscoting of them, which was done with cedar wood:

and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands; and, unless timely prevented, will soon be finished.

q So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 15. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great stones - literally, as in the margin; i. e., stones so large that they were rolled along, not carried. Others translate “polished stones.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 5:8. With great stones — They are making a very strong and a very costly building.