Esra 6:12

Schlachter Bibel

Der Gott aber, dessen Name alldort wohnt, stürze alle Könige und Völker, welche ihre Hand ausstrecken, dieses Haus Gottes in Jerusalem zu ändern oder zu zerstören! Ich, Darius, habe solches befohlen; es soll genau ausgeführt werden."

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Der Gott aber, der seinen Namen daselbst wohnen läßt, bringe um alle Könige und jegliches Volk, das seine Hand ausreckt, daran zu ändern und zu brechen das Haus Gottes in Jerusalem. Ich, Darius, habe dies befohlen, daß es mit Fleiß getan werde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

caused: Exodus 20:24, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 16:2, 1 Kings 9:3, 2 Chronicles 7:16, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14

destroy: Psalms 5:10, Psalms 21:8-10, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 137:9, Isaiah 60:12, Obadiah 1:10, Zechariah 12:2-4, Acts 5:38, Acts 5:39, Acts 9:5, Revelation 19:14-21

I Darius: Esther 3:14, Esther 3:15, Esther 8:14

speed: Ezra 6:13, Ecclesiastes 9:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:21 - to put 1 Chronicles 22:7 - unto the name Ezra 7:14 - thy God Ezra 7:15 - whose habitation Nehemiah 1:9 - the place

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there,.... Whose name is not only called upon there, and that called by his name; but who grants his presence, and causes his Shechinah, or divine Majesty, to dwell there, as in Solomon's temple, which Darius had some knowledge of:

destroy all kings and people; let them be who they will, high or low:

that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God, which is at Jerusalem; this he said to deter from hindering the building of it now, and from attempting to destroy it hereafter:

I Darius have made a decree, let it be done with speed; be carried immediately into execution, especially with respect to the disbursement for the building of the temple, and for the sacrifices of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destroy all - A similar malediction is found at the end of the great inscription of this same king Darius at Behistun: If anyone injures the tablet which he has set up, he prays that Ormazd will be their enemy, and that they may have no offspring, and that whatever they do, Ormazd may curse it for them.

To alter and to destroy this house - i. e., to alter the decree, and then proceed to destroy the house.