Ezra 4:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now because we haveh maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; ”

Ezra 4:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We have maintenance - See the margin. The phrase “to eat a man’s salt” is common in the East to this day; and is applied not only to those who receive salaries, but to all who obtain their subsis...
Ezra 4:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 4:8 to Ezra 6:18 . Extract from an Aramaic Document. Ezra 4:8-23 contains a letter, together with the king's reply to it, written by adversaries of the Jews to Artaxerxes for the purpos...
Ezra 4:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

we have maintenance . the salt of the palace is our salt. See note on Numbers 18:19 .
Ezra 4:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; Now because we have maintenance from t...
Ezra 4:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; We have maintenance from the kin...
Ezra 4:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Feud Between the Jews and Samaritans This chapter describes the desire of the Samaritans to take part in the rebuilding of the Temple, and their successful opposition to the Jews on their request...
Ezra 4:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Maintenance. — more exactly, we eat the salt of the palace. This seems to be a general expression for dependence on the king, whose dishonour or loss they profess themselves unwilling to behold.
Ezra 4:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE COST OF AN IDEALIST'S SUCCESS Ezra 4:6-23 THE fourth chapter of the Book of Ezra contains an account of a correspondence between the Samaritan colonists and two kings of Persia, which follo...
Ezra 4:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Enemy's Short-Lived Triumph Ezra 4:11-24 The promoters of this letter were descendants of the heathen colonists who had been sent into the land by the Assyrians, 2 Kings 17:24 . It was wri...
Ezra 4:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have the story of the opposition of the Samaritans, and the consequent cessation of work on the Temple for a time. The historic chronology presents difficulties. The subject is not...
Ezra 4:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It should seem that Ahasuerus and Artaxerxes are both names of the same person: probably meaning the same as King. And it should seem that the enemies of the church caught at the first moment in the...
Ezra 4:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace ,.... Have posts under the king, to which salaries were annexed, by which they were supported, and which they had from the king's exchequer; or...
Ezra 4:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now because we have maintenance from [the king's] palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; Ver. 14. Now because we have mainten...
Ezra 4:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace In the Hebrew it is, we are salted with the salt of the palace. That is, are sustained by the king's munificence, or have a salary from him,...
Ezra 4:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

PRETENDED FRIENDSHIP AND OPPOSITION (vv. 1-5) Satan is subtle in the way he attacks a work of God. He appears to be friendly, as is seen in the way the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin came to...
Ezra 4:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Jews Misrepresented. B. C. 521. 6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning...
Ezra 4:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thus they pretend the king's service to their own malicious designs and private interests.
Ezra 4:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Subsequent History Of The Enmity Revealed Against The Returnees Up To The Time Of Nehemiah ( Ezra 4:6-23 ). What follows up to Ezra 4:23 goes beyond the question of building the Temple. The...
Ezra 4:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have—(i.) The proposal of the Samaritans to unite with the Jews in building the Temple, and its rejection ( Ezra 4:1-3 ). (ii.) The opposition of t...
Ezra 4:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 4:1 . The adversaries of Judah. These were the Samaritans; that is, Jews of the ten tribes, apostate from the religion of their fathers, now intermarried with the heathen, who were worshipper...
Ezra 4:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah. The hostility of the Samaritans to the Jews I. The tactics of the wicked. If they cannot bend the good to their wishes and...
Ezra 4:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezra 4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes. See the comment on Ezra 4:6 . If Artaxerxes be the Pseudo-Smerdis, we can readily understand why an application was not made to him at...
Ezra 4:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Letter To Artaxerxes
Ezra 4:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 33:31 ; John 12:5 ; John 12:6 ; John 19:12-15

Ezra 4:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezra 4:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezra 4:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezra 4:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezra 4:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezra 4:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezra 4:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 4:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezra 4:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 4:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezra 4:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 4:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezra 4:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezra 4:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezra 4:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge