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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Esdra 6:3

L’anno primo del re Ciro, il re Ciro ordinò, intorno alla Casa di Dio in Gerusalemme, ch’essa fosse riedificata, per essere un luogo dove si sacrificassero sacrificii; e che i suoi fondamenti fossero saldi e forti; e che la sua altezza fosse di sessanta cubiti, e la sua lunghezza parimente di sessanta cubiti;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Cyrus;   House;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Liberality;   Persia;   Rulers;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cyrus;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cities;   Foundation;   Kings;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Ezra;   Media;   Persia;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Decrees;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezra, the Book of;   Medes;   Persia;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Decree;   Israel, History of;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Zechariah, Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   Temple, the;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cy'rus;   Medes, Me'dia;   Per'sia;   Temple;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Cyrus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holy of Holies;   Temple, the Second;  

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
"Nel primo anno del re Ciro, il re Ciro pubblic un editto riguardo alla casa di Dio a Gerusalemme: "Il tempio, il luogo dove si offrono sacrifici, sia ricostruito. Le sue fondamenta siano saldamente gettate. Abbia sessanta cubiti di altezza e sessanta cubiti di larghezza,
Riveduta Bibbia
"Memoria. Il primo anno del re Ciro, il re Ciro ha pubblicato quest’editto, concernente la casa di Dio a Gerusalemme: La casa sia riedificata per essere un luogo dove si offrono dei sacrifizi; e le fondamenta che se ne getteranno, siano solide. Abbia sessanta cubiti d’altezza, sessanta cubiti di larghezza,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the first year: Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 5:13-15, 2 Chronicles 36:22, 2 Chronicles 36:23

the place: Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:11-14, 2 Chronicles 2:6, Psalms 122:4

the height: 1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:3, 2 Chronicles 3:3, 2 Chronicles 3:4, Ezekiel 41:13-15, Revelation 21:16

Reciprocal: Ezra 3:7 - according Ezra 4:3 - king Cyrus Ezra 5:15 - let the house Ezra 5:17 - a decree Isaiah 44:28 - saying Isaiah 60:10 - their kings Jeremiah 30:18 - the palace Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the first year of Cyrus the king; the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded,.... See Ezra 1:1,

the place where they offered sacrifices; to God in times past, ever since it was built by Solomon:

and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; so as to bear and support the building erected on them, as the word signifies:

the height thereof sixty cubits; which were thirty more than the height of Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:2 though sixty less than the height of the porch, which was one hundred and twenty, 2 Chronicles 3:4 and which some take to be the height of the whole house; and hence it may be observed what Herod said y, that the temple then in being wanted sixty cubits in height of that of Solomon's:

and the breadth thereof sixty cubits; whereas the breadth of Solomon's temple was but twenty, 1 Kings 6:2, but since it cannot reasonably be thought that the breadth should be equal to the height, and so very disproportionate to Solomon's temple; many learned men understand this of the extension of it as to length, which exactly agrees with the length of the former temple, 1 Kings 6:2.

y Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 15. c. 11. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is difficult to reconcile the dimentions here with expressions in Zechariah Zechariah 4:10, Haggai Haggai 2:3, and even Ezra Ezra 3:12, which imply that the second temple was smaller than the first (compare 1 Kings 6:2). Perhaps the dimensions here are those which Cyrus required the Jews not to exceed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 6:3. The height thereof threescore cubits — This was much larger than the temple of Solomon. This was sixty cubits high, and sixty cubits broad; whereas Solomon's was only twenty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high.


 
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