Ezra 5:9

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kemudian kami menanyai para tua-tua itu dan beginilah kata kami kepada mereka: Siapakah yang memberi perintah kepadamu untuk membangun rumah ini dan menyelesaikan tembok ini?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian kami menanyai para tua-tua itu dan beginilah kata kami kepada mereka: Siapakah yang memberi perintah kepadamu untuk membangun rumah ini dan menyelesaikan tembok ini?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka patik sudah bertanyakan segala tua-tua mereka itu serta kata patik kepadanya: Siapa sudah menyuruh kamu membangunkan rumah ini dan mendirikan pula pagar tembok ini?

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

Who commanded: Ezra 5:3, Ezra 5:4

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalchel, Iared.

Luke 3:37
Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala, whiche was the sonne of Enoch, which was the sonne of Iared, whiche was the sonne of Maleleel, whiche was the sonne of Cainan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then asked we those elders,.... The elders of the province of Judea; the chief men of it:

who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls? see Ezra 5:3.