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OET-RV EZRA Chapter 5

OETEZRA 5 ©

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5:1The temple rebuilding continues

5Then the prophet Haggai and Iddo’s son Zecharyah prophesied to the Jews in Yerushalem and across Yehudah in the name of Israel’s God who they served.[ref] 2Then Shealtiel’s son Zerubbabel and Yotsadak’s son Yeshua took action and began to rebuild God’s temple in Yerushalem, and the prophets who served God were there with them, supporting them.[ref]

3At that time, Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the Euphrates, and Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions came to them and demanded, “Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?” 4They also asked the Jews to tell them the names of the men who were working on the building. 5However, God was watching over the Jewish leaders, and they weren’t actually stopped. A report was sent to King Dareyavesh, then they waited for a response. 6Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the river, and Shetar-Bozenai and his companions, the provincial officials, sent the letter to King Dareyavesh (Darius) 7this is what was written in their report:

“To King Dareyavesh. All peace. 8Let it be known to the king that we went to the province of Yehudah, to the temple of the great God, and it is being built with large stones, and timber is being placed in the walls. This work is being done to a high standard and they’re making good progress.

9“Then we asked those elders, ‘Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?’ 10We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders to inform you.

11“This is the answer they gave us, ‘We are servants of the God of the heavens and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was constructed and finished many years ago by a famous Israeli king. 12However, because our ancestors made the God of the heavens angry, he let Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean) defeat them, and he destroyed that temple and caused the people to be exiled to Babylon.[ref] 13But in the first year of the reign of Babylonian King Koresh (Cyrus), he made a decree to rebuild this house of God.[ref] 14What’s more, the gold and silver containers that Nevukadnetstsar had taken out from that temple that was in Yerushalem and had brought to the temple in Babylon, King Koresh took them out from the temple in Babylon and they were handed over to the man named Sheshbatstsar who he’d appointed as governor over Yehudah. 15Koresh had told him to take those containers and put them back in the temple in Yerushalem, and to ensure that the temple got rebuilt in the same place where it had been before. 16So Sheshbatstsar came here and laid the foundation of God’s house in Yerushalem, and since then, it’s been being rebuilt but isn’t finished yet.’

17So now, if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the records in the king’s treasure house there in Babylon, if it’s correct that a decree was set by King Koresh to rebuild this house of God in Yerushalem. Then let the king send his decision on this matter back to us.”


5:1: Hag 1:1; Zech 1:1.

5:2: Hag 1:12; Zech 4:6-9.

5:12: 2Ki 25:8-12; 2Ch 36:17-20; Jer 52:12-15.

5:13: Ezr 1:2-11.

OETEZRA 5 ©

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