Ezra 5:16

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

16 Böylece Şeşbassar gelip Tanrının Yeruşalimdeki Tapınağının temelini attı. O günden bu yana yapım işleri sürmekte, ama daha bitmedi.›

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sheshbazzar: Ezra 5:14

laid: Ezra 5:2, Ezra 3:8, Ezra 3:10, Haggai 1:12-14, Haggai 2:18, Zechariah 4:10, am 3468-3485, bc 536-519

it is not finished: Ezra 6:15

Reciprocal: Ezra 1:8 - Sheshbazzar Zechariah 4:9 - have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem,.... Which makes it clear, that by Sheshbazzar is meant Zerubbabel; for he it was that laid the foundation of the temple, or at least by whose order it was laid, see Zechariah 4:9

and since that time even until now; from the first of Cyrus to the second of Darius, a space of about eighteen years, and just seventy from the destruction of the temple:

hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished; the work going on slowly, not without interruption and intermission, through the enmity of the Samaritans unto them, who had made false representations of them; but these men, Tatnai and those with him, as the Jews gave them a very particular account of things, as above, so they fairly and fully related them in this their letter to the king.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Since that time even until now - Sixteen years - from 536 B.C. to 520 B.C. The adversaries of the Jews here overstep the truth; since, in point of fact, the work had been suspended for a while Ezra 4:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Sheshbazzar — Probably the military officer that conducted the people from Babylon, and had the oversight of the work; but some think that Ezra is meant.