Esdras 6:14

La Bible Ostervald

Or les anciens des Juifs bâtissaient et avançaient, selon la prophétie d'Aggée, le prophète, et de Zacharie, fils d'Iddo. Ils bâtirent donc et achevèrent, d'après l'ordre du Dieu d'Israël, et d'après l'ordre de Cyrus, de Darius, et d'Artaxerxès, roi de Perse.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et les anciens des Juifs bâtirent et prospérèrent par la prophétie d'Aggée, le prophète, et de Zacharie, fils d'Iddo. Et ils bâtirent et achevèrent, selon l'ordre du Dieu d'Israël et selon l'ordre de Cyrus, et de Darius, et d'Artaxerxès, roi de Perse.

Louis Segond (1910)
Et les anciens des Juifs bâtirent avec succès, selon les prophéties d'Aggée, le prophète, et de Zacharie, fils d'Iddo; ils bâtirent et achevèrent, d'après l'ordre du Dieu d'Israël, et d'après l'ordre de Cyrus, de Darius, et d'Artaxerxès, roi de Perse.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or les Anciens des Juifs bâtissaient, et ils prospéraient suivant la prophétie d'Aggée le Prophète, et de Zacharie, fils de Hiddo. Ils bâtirent donc ayant posé les fondements par le commandement du Dieu d'Israël, et par l'ordre de Cyrus et de Darius, et aussi d'Artaxerxes, Roi de Perse.

Bible Verse Review
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And the elders: Ezra 3:8, Ezra 4:3

through: Ezra 5:1, Ezra 5:2, Haggai 1:12-14, Haggai 2:2-15, Zechariah 2:1 - Zechariah 4:14, Zechariah 6:1-15

finished it: Zechariah 4:9

according: Isaiah 44:28, Haggai 1:8

commandment: Chal, decree

Cyrus: Ezra 6:13, Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 4:24, Ezra 5:13

Artaxerxes: This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed בךסןקויס, or Longimanus, or in Persian, Ardsheer deeraz dest, "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, am 3540, bc 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition. Ezra 7:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:38 - finished Ezra 7:7 - Artaxerxes Ezra 9:9 - to set up Esther 1:1 - Ahasuerus Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus Zechariah 1:16 - my house Zechariah 7:1 - the fourth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the elders of the Jews builded,.... Went on with the building of the temple:

and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; or grandson, as before; being animated and encouraged by them; and as they foretold and promised it would, be, so it was; they had success in their work, the Lord overruling the heart of Darius the king and his council in their favour:

and they builded and finished it; that is, the temple:

according to the commandment of the God of Israel; by the above prophets, who spoke to them, and prophesied in his name:

and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia; the commandment of Cyrus is in Ezra 1:1 that of Darius in this, Ezra 6:8, but who Artaxerxes is, and his commandment, is not easy to say; he cannot be the Artaxerxes between Cyrus and Darius, but one that followed the latter; besides, he was a hinderer of the building, Ezra 4:21, some think this was Xerxes the son and successor of Darius, and who might be partner with his father in the empire at this time, and so is joined with him in this commandment; which is more probable than that he should be his grandson Artaxerxes Longimamus, in whose reign the temple, it is supposed, was beautified and ornamented, though the exterior building of it was before finished; and so he is spoken of by anticipation; and still more plausible than that he should be, with others, Artaxerxes Mnemon, the son of Darius Nothus; but, after all, I am most inclined to think, with Aben Ezra, that he is Darius himself; and the words to be read, Darius, that is, Artaxerxes, king of Persia; Artaxerxes being, as he observes, a common name of the kings of Persia, as Pharaoh was of the kings of Egypt; though this is by some rejected h; and who goes by this name in the continuance of this history, in whose seventh year, the year after this, Ezra went up to Jerusalem, and, in the twentieth of his reign, Nehemiah, Ezra 7:1, and I find Dr. Lightfoot i was of the same mind; and, according to Diodorus Siculus k, the kings of Persia were called by the name of Artaxerxes after Mnemon; and so they might before; Cambyses is so called in Ezra 4:7. Herodotus l says the name signifies "a mighty warrior".

h Vid. Rainold de Lib. Apocryph. praelect. 31. p. 271. i Works, vol. 1. p. 139. k Bibliothec. l. 15. p. 400. l Erato, sive, l. 6. c. 98.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Artaxerxes - The Artaxerxes of marginal reference seems to be meant (i. e., Longimanus); he was one of those who together with Cyrus and Darius helped forward the completion of the work.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. According to the commandment of the God of Israel — He first gave the order, and stirred up the hearts of the following Persian kings to second that order.

Of Cyrus — This sovereign gave his orders for the rebuilding of the temple about A.M. 3468.

And Darius — Darius Hystaspes confirmed the above orders, A. M. 3485.

And Artaxerxes — Artaxerxes Longimanus sent Ezra to Judea with new privileges, A.M. 3547. With the permission of the same king, Nehemiah came to Judea in 3550. The writer recapitulates the different sovereigns who favoured the Jews after the Babylonish captivity. See Calmet.