Ezra 5:17

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

17 ‹‹Kral uygun görüyorsa, Babil Sarayı'ndaki arşivde bir araştırma yapılsın. Tanrı'nın Yeruşalim'deki Tapınağı'nın yeniden kurulması için Kral Koreş'in bir buyruk verip vermediği saptansın. Sonra kral bu konuya ilişkin kararını bize bildirsin.››

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3485, bc 519

let there be: Ezra 4:15, Ezra 4:19, Ezra 6:1, Ezra 6:2, Proverbs 25:2

a decree: Ezra 6:3-5

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 2:5 - If it please

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon,.... Where were the archives of the kingdom, where the laws, decrees, edicts, and proclamations, and other things relating to the state, were laid up, that recourse might be had to them upon occasion:

whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; which the Jews affirmed was made by him, and upon which they proceeded:

and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter; whether the Jews should be allowed to go on with the building of their temple, and finish it, or whether they should be restrained from it; signifying they were ready to do his will and pleasure either way, as he thought fit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let there be search made ... at Babylon - They perhaps doubted whether proof of the decree of Cyrus remained in the archives. The Pseudo-Smerdis had had the records in his power for seven months; and, when he reversed the policy of his predecessors, might have been expected to destroy their edicts. The decree was not found at Babylon, the most natural place for it, but in the provincial capital of Ecbatana, which Tatnai and his friends had not asked Darius to have searched (see Ezra 6:2).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 5:17. The - treasure house — גנזיא ginzaiya. This is a Persian word, [Persian] gunji, a treasury.

There is a great deal of good sense and candour in this letter. Nothing of passion or prejudice appears in it. They laid before the king a fair statement without any attempt to prejudice his mind, and gave him those directions which were most likely to lead him to the truth, and to form a correct judgment on a business which, however it issued, must be of considerable importance to the state. God was in all this business; he was now giving an additional proof of his continued regard for a disobedient people, whom, though he had punished in his justice, he had spared in his mercy.