Ezra 5:3

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Tetapi pada waktu itu juga datanglah kepada mereka Tatnai, bupati daerah sebelah barat sungai Efrat, bersama-sama dengan Syetar-Boznai dan rekan-rekan mereka, dan beginilah katanya kepada mereka: "Siapakah yang memberi perintah kepadamu untuk membangun rumah ini dan menyelesaikan tembok ini?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi pada waktu itu juga datanglah kepada mereka Tatnai, bupati daerah sebelah barat sungai Efrat, bersama-sama dengan Syetar-Boznai dan rekan-rekan mereka, dan beginilah katanya kepada mereka: "Siapakah yang memberi perintah kepadamu untuk membangun rumah ini dan menyelesaikan tembok ini?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka pada masa itu datanglah kepada mereka itu Tatnai, penghulu negeri di seberang sini sungai, dan Syetar-Boznai serta dengan segala kawannya, katanya kepada mereka itu: Siapakah sudah menyuruh kamu mambangunkan rumah ini dan mendirikan pula pagar tembok ini?

Contextual Overview

³ At the same time came to them Thathanai which was captaine beyond the water, and Stharbuzanai, and their companions, and saide thus vnto them: Who hath commaunded you to builde this house, & to make vp these walles? ⁴ Then saide we vnto them after this maner: What are the names of the men that make this building? ⁵ But the eye of their God was vpon the elders of the Iewes, that they could not cause them to ceasse, till the matter was brought to Darius: and then they aunswered by letters thereunto. ⁶ This is the copie of the letter that Thathanai which was captayne beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, & the counsailours of Apharsath which were beyond the water, sent vnto king Darius. ⁷ And the matter that they sent vnto him, was written thus within the letter: Unto Darius the king, all peace. ⁸ Be it knowen vnto the king that we went into the prouince of Iurie to the house of the great God, which is builded with mightie great stones, and beames are layde in the walles, and the worke goeth fast foorth, and prospereth in their handes. ⁹ Then asked we the elders, and saide vnto them as it foloweth: Who commaunded you to builde this house, and to make vp the walles thereof? ¹⁰ We asked their names also, that we might certifie thee, and write the names of the men that were their rulers. ¹¹ But they aunswered vs with these wordes, and saide: We are the seruauntes of him that is God of heauen and earth, and builde the house that was builded of olde and many yeres ago, which the great king of Israel builded, and set vp. ¹² But after our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath, he gaue them ouer into the hande of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon & of the Chaldees, which brake downe this house, and caried the people away captiue vnto Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Tatnai: Tatnai was governor of the provinces which belonged to the Persian empire west of the Euphrates, comprehending Syria, Arabia Deserta, Phoenicia, and Samaria. He seems to have been a mild and judicious man, and to have acted with great prudence and caution, and without any passion or prejudice. Ezra 5:6, Ezra 6:6, Ezra 6:13, Ezra 7:21, Nehemiah 2:7-9

Who hath commanded you: Ezra 5:9, Ezra 1:3, Matthew 21:23, Acts 4:7

Reciprocal: Zechariah 1:19 - scattered

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.

Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.

Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:16
And againe Mahalaleel liued after he begate Iered eyght hundreth & thirtie yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Job 14:4
Who can make it cleane that commeth of an vncleane thing? no bodye.

Job 25:4
But how may a man compared vnto God, be iustified? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman?

Psalms 51:5
Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me.

Luke 1:35
And the Angel aunswered, & saide vnto her: The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, & the power of the hyest shall ouershadowe thee. Therefore also that holy thyng whiche shalbe borne, shalbe called the sonne of God.

John 3:6
That which is borne of the fleshe, is fleshe: and that which is borne of the spirite, is spirite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions,.... These were new governors and officers under the king of Persia in those parts, the old ones, Rehum, Shimshai, c. being either dead, or removed upon this new king coming to the throne: these came to the Jews,

and said thus unto them, who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall? for it seems by this time they had raised up the walls of the temple from its foundation to some height for of these it must be understood, see Ezra 4:8 for it can hardly be thought they were as yet enclosing it with a wall round about it; now they asked them by what authority they did this? who set them to work? and what were their names? for that this question was asked, though not here expressed, is clear from Ezra 4:10 and to which an answer is given in the next verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Governor on this side the river - Compare Ezra 4:10 note. Tatnai was apparently satrap of Syria, which included the whole tract west of the Euphrates from Cilicia to the borders of Egypt. Zerubbabel must have been, to some extent, under his authority.

Who hath commanded you to build? - There was no doubt a formal illegality in the conduct of Zerubbabel and Jeshua: since all edicts of Persian kings continued in force unless revoked by their successors. But they felt justified in disobeying the decree of the Pseudo-Smerdis (see the Ezra 4:7 note), because the opposition between his religious views and those of his successor was matter of notoriety.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 5:3. Tatnai, governor — He was governor of the provinces which belonged to the Persian empire on their side of the Euphrates, comprehending Syria, Arabia Deserta, Phoenicia, and Samaria. He seems to have been a mild and judicious man; and to have acted with great prudence and caution, and without any kind of prejudice. The manner in which he represented this to the king is a full proof of this disposition.