Ezra 5:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kiranya raja maklum, bahwa kami datang ke daerah Yehuda, ke rumah Allah yang maha besar. Rumah itu sedang dibangun dengan batu yang besar-besar, sedang dindingnya dilapis dengan kayu, dan pekerjaan itu dikerjakan dengan seksama dan berjalan lancar di tangan mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kiranya raja maklum, bahwa kami datang ke daerah Yehuda, ke rumah Allah yang maha besar. Rumah itu sedang dibangun dengan batu yang besar-besar, sedang dindingnya dilapis dengan kayu, dan pekerjaan itu dikerjakan dengan seksama dan berjalan lancar di tangan mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka maklumlah kiranya tuanku bahwa patik sekalian ini sudah pergi ke tanah Yehuda, ke bait-Ullah yang mahabesar, maka bait itu diperbuat dari pada batu besar-besar dan segala dindingnya lagi dilapis dengan kayu, maka pekerjaan itu dibuatnya dengan segera dan lagi jadi dengan selamat oleh tangan mereka itu.

Contextual Overview

³ At the same time came to them Thathanai which was captaine beyond the water, and Stharbuzanai, and their companions, and saide thus vnto them: Who hath commaunded you to builde this house, & to make vp these walles? ⁴ Then saide we vnto them after this maner: What are the names of the men that make this building? ⁵ But the eye of their God was vpon the elders of the Iewes, that they could not cause them to ceasse, till the matter was brought to Darius: and then they aunswered by letters thereunto. ⁶ This is the copie of the letter that Thathanai which was captayne beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, & the counsailours of Apharsath which were beyond the water, sent vnto king Darius. ⁷ And the matter that they sent vnto him, was written thus within the letter: Unto Darius the king, all peace. ⁸ Be it knowen vnto the king that we went into the prouince of Iurie to the house of the great God, which is builded with mightie great stones, and beames are layde in the walles, and the worke goeth fast foorth, and prospereth in their handes. ⁹ Then asked we the elders, and saide vnto them as it foloweth: Who commaunded you to builde this house, and to make vp the walles thereof? ¹⁰ We asked their names also, that we might certifie thee, and write the names of the men that were their rulers. ¹¹ But they aunswered vs with these wordes, and saide: We are the seruauntes of him that is God of heauen and earth, and builde the house that was builded of olde and many yeres ago, which the great king of Israel builded, and set vp. ¹² But after our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath, he gaue them ouer into the hande of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon & of the Chaldees, which brake downe this house, and caried the people away captiue vnto Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the province: Ezra 2:1, Nehemiah 7:6, Nehemiah 11:3, Esther 1:1, Esther 1:22

the great God: Ezra 1:2, Ezra 1:3, Ezra 6:10, Ezra 7:23, Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 32:31, Psalms 145:3, Daniel 2:47, Daniel 3:26, Daniel 4:2, Daniel 4:34-37, Daniel 6:26

great stones: Chal, stones of rolling, Mark 13:1, Mark 13:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:12 - masons Ezra 7:14 - thy God Nehemiah 1:3 - the province Nehemiah 4:7 - heard Haggai 1:14 - and they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be it known unto the king,.... This seems to have been the usual form of beginning a letter to a king in those days, Ezra 4:12 that we went into the province of Judea; which from a kingdom was reduced to a province, and was become a part of the Babylonian, now Persian, monarchy, see Ezra 2:1 to the house of the great God; as the Jews called the Lord their God; and even the Heathens had a notion that there was one supreme God, though they worshipped inferior ones; and some had a notion that Jehovah the God of the Jews was he:

which is builded with great stones; marble stones; as Jarchi q, stones of rolling, as it may be rendered; which, according to Aben Ezra, were so large and heavy, that they could not be carried, but were obliged to roll them:

and timber is laid in the walls, cedar wood, as Aben Ezra interprets it, for beams, for flooring and raftering; or rather, is put upon the walls, for the lining and wainscoting of them, which was done with cedar wood:

and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands; and, unless timely prevented, will soon be finished.

q So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 15. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great stones - literally, as in the margin; i. e., stones so large that they were rolled along, not carried. Others translate “polished stones.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 5:8. With great stones — They are making a very strong and a very costly building.