And this is the answer they returned: "We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed. People Apharesachites, Apharsachites, Cyrus, Darius, Haggai, Iddo, Jeshua, Jozadak, Nebuchadnezzar, Shealtiel, Sheshbazzar, Shethar, Shetharboznai, Tatnai, Zechariah, ZerubbabelPlaces Babylon, Babylonia, Beyond the River, JerusalemTopics Ago, Build, Builded, Building, Built, Complete, Completed, Designed, Erected, Finished, Heaven, Heavens, Past, Rebuilding, Reply, Returned, Saying, Servants, Temple, ThusOutline 1. Zerubbabel and Jeshua, incited by Haggai and Zechariah, set forward to building3. Tattenai and Shethar-Bozenai are not able to hinder the Jews6. Their letter to Darius against the JewsJump to Previous Ago Build Builded Building Built Earth Erected Finished Great Heaven House Israel Rebuilding ServantsJump to Next Ago Build Builded Building Built Earth Erected Finished Great Heaven House Israel Rebuilding ServantsLibrary Ezra-Nehemiah
Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old TestamentParallel Verses NASB: "Thus they answered us, saying, 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.KJV: And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
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