Esdra 5:8

La Nuova Diodati

Sia noto al re che noi siamo andati nella provincia di Giuda, al tempio del grande Dio. Esso viene costruito con grosse pietre e mettendo legname nelle pareti. Questo lavoro viene fatto con cura e procede bene nelle loro mani.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Sappia il re che noi siamo andati nella provincia di Giuda, alla casa del gran Dio. Essa si costruisce con blocchi di pietra, e nelle pareti s’interpongono de’ legnami; l’opera vien fatta con cura e progredisce nelle loro mani.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Il re sappia che noi siamo andati nella provincia della Giudea, alla Casa del grande Iddio, la quale si edifica di pietre pulite; e già i legnami son posti in su le pareti; e questa opera si fa in fretta, e si avanza nelle mani di quella gente.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the province: Ezra 2:1, Nehemiah 7:6, Nehemiah 11:3, Esther 1:1, Esther 1:22

the great God: Ezra 1:2, Ezra 1:3, Ezra 6:10, Ezra 7:23, Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 32:31, Psalms 145:3, Daniel 2:47, Daniel 3:26, Daniel 4:2, Daniel 4:34-37, Daniel 6:26

great stones: Chal, stones of rolling, Mark 13:1, Mark 13:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:12 - masons Ezra 7:14 - thy God Nehemiah 1:3 - the province Nehemiah 4:7 - heard Haggai 1:14 - and they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be it known unto the king,.... This seems to have been the usual form of beginning a letter to a king in those days, Ezra 4:12 that we went into the province of Judea; which from a kingdom was reduced to a province, and was become a part of the Babylonian, now Persian, monarchy, see Ezra 2:1 to the house of the great God; as the Jews called the Lord their God; and even the Heathens had a notion that there was one supreme God, though they worshipped inferior ones; and some had a notion that Jehovah the God of the Jews was he:

which is builded with great stones; marble stones; as Jarchi q, stones of rolling, as it may be rendered; which, according to Aben Ezra, were so large and heavy, that they could not be carried, but were obliged to roll them:

and timber is laid in the walls, cedar wood, as Aben Ezra interprets it, for beams, for flooring and raftering; or rather, is put upon the walls, for the lining and wainscoting of them, which was done with cedar wood:

and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands; and, unless timely prevented, will soon be finished.

q So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 15. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great stones - literally, as in the margin; i. e., stones so large that they were rolled along, not carried. Others translate “polished stones.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 5:8. With great stones — They are making a very strong and a very costly building.