Esra 4:3

Schlachter Bibel

Aber Serubbabel und Jesua und die übrigen Familienhäupter Israels antworteten ihnen: Es geziemt sich nicht, daß ihr und wir das Haus Gottes [gemeinsam] bauen, sondern wir allein wollen dem Herrn dem Gott Israels, bauen, wie uns Kores, der König von Persien, geboten hat!

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Aber Serubabel und Jesua und die andern Obersten der Vaterhäuser in Israel antworteten ihnen: Es ziemt sich nicht, uns und euch, das Haus unsers Gottes zu bauen; sondern wir wollen allein bauen dem HERRN, dem Gott Israels, wie uns Kores, der König in Persien, geboten hat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ye have nothing: Nehemiah 2:20, John 4:22, John 4:23, Acts 8:21, Romans 9:4, Romans 9:5, 3 John 1:9, 3 John 1:10

king Cyrus: Ezra 1:1-3, Ezra 6:3-5, 2 Chronicles 36:22, 2 Chronicles 36:23, Isaiah 44:28, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:4, Matthew 10:16

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:25 - ye have Ezra 2:2 - Jeshua Ezra 6:14 - And the elders Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus 2 Corinthians 6:15 - or Ephesians 2:12 - aliens

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Zerubbabel, and Joshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers, said unto them,.... The prince and high priest, and chief of the people:

you have nothing to do with us to build an house to our God; being neither of the same nation, nor of the same religion:

but we ourselves together will build to the Lord God of Israel; we and we only, who are together as one man, united in one body of people, and in the same religious sentiments, being Israelites; we separately, without admitting strangers among us, will build a temple to the God of Israel:

as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, hath commanded us; thereby letting them know that they acted by his authority, and the commission they had from him only concerned themselves, and not others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have nothing to do with us - Because the Samaritans had united idolatrous rites with the worship of Yahweh 2 Kings 17:29-41. To have allowed them a share in restoring the temple would have been destructive of all purity of religion.

As king Cyrus ... commanded us - The exact words of the edict gave the right of building exclusively to those who should “go up” from Babylonia to Judaea Ezra 1:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 4:3. Ye have nothing to do with us — We cannot acknowledge you as worshippers of the true God, and cannot participate with you in anything that relates to his worship.