Ezra 4:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bahkan, selama zaman Koresh, raja negeri Persia, sampai zaman pemerintahan Darius, raja negeri Persia, mereka menyogok para penasihat untuk melawan orang-orang Yehuda itu dan menggagalkan rancangan mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bahkan, selama zaman Koresh, raja negeri Persia, sampai zaman pemerintahan Darius, raja negeri Persia, mereka menyogok para penasihat untuk melawan orang-orang Yehuda itu dan menggagalkan rancangan mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
dan disuapinya akan beberapa orang pembicara melawan mereka itu, supaya dibatalkannya bicara mereka itu pada segala hari umur hidup Koresy, raja Farsi, sampai kepada kerajaan Darius, raja Farsi itu.

Contextual Overview

¹ But the aduersaries of Iuda and Beniamin, heard that the children of the captiuitie builded the temple vnto the Lorde God of Israel: ² And they came to Zorobabel and to the principall fathers, and saide vnto them: We wyll builde with you, for we seeke the Lorde your God, as ye do, and we haue done sacrifice vnto him since the time of Asor Hadon the king of Assur which brought vs vp hither. ³ And Zorobabel, and Iesua, and the other auncient fathers of Israel, sayde vnto them: It can not be, that you and we together shoulde builde the house vnto our God: for we our selues wyll builde alone vnto the Lorde our God of Israel, as Cyrus the king of Persia hath commaunded vs. ⁴ And it came to passe, that the folke of the lande discouraged the people of Iuda, & troubled them as they were building: ⁵ And hyred counsellers against them, to hinder their deuice as long as Cyrus the king of Persia liued, vntil the raigne of Darius king of Persia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hired: Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Nahum 1:11, Acts 24:1-27

Darius: Ezra 4:24, Ezra 5:5-17, Ezra 6:1-18

Reciprocal: Daniel 8:3 - one Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus Daniel 11:2 - three

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.

Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.

Genesis 31:2
And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be.

Genesis 31:5
And sayde vnto them: I see your fathers countenauce that it is not toward me as it was wont to be: but the God of my father hath ben with me.

Numbers 16:15
And Moyses waxed very angry, and sayde vnto the Lorde, Turne not thou vnto their offeryng: I haue not taken so much as an asse from them, neither haue I hurt any of them.

Job 5:2
As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant.

Psalms 20:3
Let him remember all thy offeringes: and turne into asshes thy burnt sacrifices. Selah.

Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawfull for me, to do that I wyll with myne owne? Is thyne eye euyll, because I am good?

Acts 13:45
But when the Iewes sawe the people, they were full of indignation, and spake agaynst those thynges which were spoken of Paul, speakyng against, and raylyng.

Hebrews 11:4
By fayth Abel offered vnto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain: by whiche he was witnessed to be ryghteous, God testifiyng of his gyftes: by which also he beyng dead, yet speaketh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose,.... Either to advise and persuade the king of Persia's officers in those parts not to supply them with money, or to influence the great men at his court to get the edict revoked: and this they did

all the days of Cyrus king of Persia; who, though the hearty friend and patron of the Jews, yet being engaged in wars abroad with the Lydians and Scythians, and leaving his son as viceroy in his absence, who was no friend unto them, the work went on but slowly, attended with interruptions and discouragements:

even until the reign of Darius king of Persia; who was Darius Hystaspis, between whom and Cyrus were Cambyses the son of Cyrus, and Smerdis the impostor, who pretended to be Smerdis, the brother of Cambyses; a space of about fifteen years.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hired counselors - Rather, “bribed” officials at the Persian court to interpose delays and create difficulties, in order to hinder the work.

Darius - i. e., Darius, the son of Hystaspes

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 4:5. Hired counsellors — They found means to corrupt some of the principal officers of the Persian court, so that the orders of Cyrus were not executed; or at least so slowly as to make them nearly ineffectual.

Until the reign of Darius — This was probably Darius the son of Hystaspes.