エズラ記 5:8

聖書日本語

8 王に次のことをお知らせいたします。すなわち、われわれがユダヤ州へ行き、かの大いなる神の宮へ行って見たところ、それは大きな石をもって建てられ、材木を組んで壁をつくり、その工事は勤勉に行われ、彼らの手によって大いにはかどっています。

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.