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BrLXXΤότε ταῦτα εἴποσαν αὐτοῖς, τίνα ἐστὶ τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν οἰκοδομούντων τὴν πόλιν ταύτην; (Tote tauta eiposan autois, tina esti ta onomata tōn andrōn tōn oikodomountōn taʸn polin tautaʸn; )
BrTrThen they spoke thus to them, What are the names of the men that build this city?
ULTThen accordingly we said to them, “What are the names of the men who are building this building?”
USTThey also asked the Jews to tell them the names of the men who were working on this temple.
BSB § They also asked,[fn] “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”
KJB-1611[fn]Then said wee vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that make this building? (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)
BshpsThen saide we vnto them after this maner: What are the names of the men that make this building? (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
GnvaThen sayde we vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that buylde this buylding? (Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that build this buylding? )
CvdlThen tolde we them the names of the men, that made this buyldinge. (Then told we them the names of the men, that made this building.)
WyclTo which thing we answeriden to hem, whiche weren the names of men, autours of that bildyng. (To which thing we answered to them, which were the names of men, autours of that bildyng.)
LuthDa sagten wir ihnen wie die Männer hießen, die diesen Bau täten. (So saidn we/us to_them like the men hießen, the this Bau täten.)
ClVgAd quod respondimus eis, quæ essent nomina hominum auctorum ædificationis illius.[fn] (Ad that respondimus eis, which they_would_be nomina of_men auctorum ædificationis illius. )
5.4Ad quod respondimus. ID., ibid. Videtur qui hoc scripsit præsens affuisse, cum Esdras dicatur scripsisse, qui non tunc Jerosolymis fuisse, sed multo post, regnante Artaxerxe, illuc venisse reperitur. Aut ergo tunc vere ibi fuit, et facto templo Babyloniam rediit, ut plures de filiis Isræl in Jerusalem reduceret, aut se ædificantibus jungit, quasi suum sit quod erga fratres agitur, vel quod ipsi agunt, sicut Apostolus ait: Nos qui vivimus, qui residui sumus in adventu Domini, non præveniemus, etc. I Thes. 4..
5.4Ad that respondimus. ID., ibid. Videtur who this scripsit præsens affuisse, when/with Esdras let_him_sayur scripsisse, who not/no tunc Yerosolymis fuisse, but multo post, regnante Artaxerxe, illuc venisse reperitur. Aut therefore tunc vere there fuit, and facto temple Babyloniam rediit, as plures about childrens Isræl in Yerusalem reduceret, aut se ædificantibus yungit, as_if his_own let_it_be that erga brothers agitur, or that ipsi agunt, like Apostolus he_said: Nos who vivimus, who residui sumus in adventu Master, not/no præveniemus, etc. I Thes. 4..
Here, the word Then is indicating that the enemies asked the question in this verse right after the question they asked in the previous verse. (The word is not indicating that the two questions were asked on separate occasions.) Alternate translation: “In addition”
Here, the Aramaic text reads we said. The pronoun does not seem to fit the context here, because of the sudden, unexplained shift from third person “they” in verse 3 to first person “we” here. In 5:10, in their letter to Darius, Tattenai and his associates use “we” when they report that they were the ones who asked this question. So the word “we” could have been mistakenly copied into this verse from that one. Other ancient versions say “they,” and it will likely be clearest for your readers if you translate the phrase in that way. Alternate translation: “they said to them, ‘What are the men's names’” or “they said to them, ‘Who are the men’” It is also possible that the verse is not reporting a question in direct speech, but is simply describing what was said as a statement. In that case, we would refer to the Jews. Alternate translation: “we told them who the men were” or “we told them the names of the men [who were building this building.”]
The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.
