EZRA CHAPTER 6 Darius answereth the former letter, EZRA 6:1; and maketh a new decree, EZRA 6:8. By the help of the adversaries, and the directions of the prophets, the temple is finished, EZRA 6:13. The feasts of the dedication, EZRA 6:16, and of the passover, are kept, EZRA 6:19. DARIUS MADE A DECR... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the king's answer may seem to begin, and this following account he sends to them, and after that lays down his commands. ACHMETHA; the royal city of the Medes and Persians.... [ Continue Reading ]
He did not command them to make it so large, for he left the ordering of the proportions of the building to their skill and choice; but he restrained them that they should make it no larger, lest they should hereafter make use of it to other purposes against himself: but those proportions differ muc... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THREE ROWS OF GREAT STONES, AND A ROW OF NEW TIMBER; as Solomon's temple was built, 1 KINGS 6:36; whereof Darius was informed by some of the Jews, who also desired that it might be done in this manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE RESTORED to Sheshbazzar; for this is part of Cyrus's decree, (which is here recited,) and not Darius s, which does not begin till the next verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
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From proceeding in their work for want of money.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THEY PROSPERED THROUGH THE PROPHESYING OF HAGGAI: this is a seasonable intimation that this great and unexpected success was not to be ascribed to chance, nor to the kindness or good humour of Darius; but unto God only, who by his prophets had required and encouraged them to proceed in the work, and... [ Continue Reading ]
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FROM THE FILTHINESS OF THE HEATHEN, i.e. such as had forsaken that filthy and idolatrous religion of the heathens, and were proselyted to the Jewish religion; for such were allowed to eat the passover, EXODUS 12:48 NUMBERS 9:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEART OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA, i.e. of the king of Persia, which was now king of Assyria also, or emperor of that vast and famous Assyrian empire; which was first subdued by the king of Babylon, who therefore is somewhere called _the Assyrian_; and for the same reason the Persian monarch is here... [ Continue Reading ]