So we questioned the elders and asked, "Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?" People Apharesachites, Apharsachites, Cyrus, Darius, Haggai, Iddo, Jeshua, Jozadak, Nebuchadnezzar, Shealtiel, Sheshbazzar, Shethar, Shetharboznai, Tatnai, Zechariah, ZerubbabelPlaces Babylon, Babylonia, Beyond the River, JerusalemTopics Authority, Authorized, Build, Building, Commanded, Complete, Decree, Elders, Erect, Finish, Issued, Orders, Rebuild, Responsible, Restore, Spoke, Structure, Temple, Thus, Wall, WallsOutline 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 Authority Authorized Build Building Commanded Complete Decree Elders Erect Finish House Issued Orders Questioned Rebuild Responsible Restore Structure Temple Wall Walls WhoJump to Next Authority Authorized Build Building Commanded Complete Decree Elders Erect Finish House Issued Orders Questioned Rebuild Responsible Restore Structure Temple Wall Walls WhoLibrary 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: "Then we asked those elders and said to them thus, 'Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?'KJV: Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
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