Ezra 5:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them. ”

• Ezra 5:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Began to build - i. e., “made a second beginning” - recommenced the uncompleted work. Helping them - By infusing zeal into the people (see Haggai 1:12 ).

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• Ezra 5:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God (a) helping them. (...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Ezra 4:24 to Ezra 5:17 . The narrative which was broken off at the end of Ezra 4:5 is now resumed. There is silence regarding the period 536- 520 B.C.; in 516, however, it is said that the bui...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them. Then r...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them. Th...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Building of the Temple Recommenced This chapter gives an account of a renewed attempt to rebuild the Temple, and recites a letter from the Persian officials in Judæa to the Persian court to en...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  V. (1-2) Now occurs the intervention of the two prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, whose testimonies and predictions should at this point be read. They reveal a state of apathy which Ezra does not al...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE MISSION OF PROPHECY Ezra 5:1-2 THE work of building the temple at Jerusalem, which had been but nominally commenced in the reign of Cyrus, when it was suddenly arrested before the death of...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Mission of Haggai and Zechariah Ezra 5:1-17 It is necessary to read the books of Haggai and Zechariah to see what difficulties the leaders of the people had to meet, and how much they neede...

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• Ezra 5:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  A study of the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah makes it perfectly evident that the cessation of the work of building was unworthy of the men who had commenced. Judged by all human standards they c...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  We shall do well to compare the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah with this part of the history; for both scriptures will mutually explain each other. How beautiful it is when the Lord at any time s...

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• Ezra 5:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak ,.... Whose spirits were stirred up and quickened by the ministry of the prophets, the Lord accompanying it by his Spirit,...

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• Ezra 5:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God helping them. Ver....

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• Ezra 5:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then rose up Zerubbabel and Jeshua, and began to build the house It had been begun to be built long before, but from the first had gone on very slowly, and afterward had been quite intermitted, til...

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• Ezra 5:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WORK RESUMED AND OPPOSITION RESUMED (vv. 1-5) The initiative for resuming the work had come from the Lord who moved the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to speak in His name to the Jews in Judah an...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Jews Encouraged by Their Prophets. B. C. 520.       1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophe...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Encouraging the people to work by their presence, and assurance of success.

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• Ezra 5:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] i. The work resumed through the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah, the prophets ( Ezra 5:1-2 ). ii. The workers interrogated by the Persian authorities west of the Eu...

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• Ezra 5:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezra 5:4 . Then said we. Septuagint: “Then said they unto them.” Ezra 5:16 . Since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished. The chronology of the Persian...

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• Ezra 5:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION RECOMMENCEMENT OF THE BUILDING IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS . PREACHING OF HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH ( Ezra 5:1-15 :l, 2). It appears from the extant propheci...

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• Ezra 5:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Zeal of the People Aroused

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• Ezra 5:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 1:24 ; Ezra 3:2 ; Ezra 6:14 ; Haggai 1:12-15 ; Haggai 2:20-23 ; Haggai 2:4-9 ; Zechariah 3:1-4 ; Zechariah 6:11

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• Ezra 5:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Helping — Encouraging the people to work by their presence, and assurance of success. It is supposed, the work had stopt about fifteen years. The first chapter of Haggai is the best comment on thes...

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