Ezra 5:10 We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

English Standard Version
We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.

New American Standard Bible
"We also asked them their names so as to inform you, and that we might write down the names of the men who were at their head.

King James Bible
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We also asked them for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

International Standard Version
We also asked them their names so that we could certify the identities of their leaders to you.

American Standard Version
We asked them their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee notice: and we have written the names of the men that are the chief among them.

Darby Bible Translation
We asked their names also, to inform thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

Young's Literal Translation
And also their names we have asked of them, to let thee know, that we might write the names of the men who are at their head.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:3-17 While employed in God's work, we are under his special protection; his eye is upon us for good. This should keep us to our duty, and encourage us therein, when difficulties are ever so discouraging. The elders of the Jews gave the Samaritans an account of their proceedings. Let us learn hence, with meekness and fear, to give a reason of the hope that is in us; let us rightly understand, and then readily declare, what we do in God's service, and why we do it. And while in this world, we always shall have to confess, that our sins have provoked the wrath of God. All our sufferings spring from thence, and all our comforts from his unmerited mercy. However the work may seem to be hindered, yet the Lord Jesus Christ is carrying it on, his people are growing unto a holy temple in the Lord, for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones—literally, "stones of rolling"; that is, stones of such extraordinary size that they could not be carried—they had to be rolled or dragged along the ground.