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Ezra 6:6
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"Oleh sebab itu, hai Tatnai, bupati daerah seberang sungai Efrat, dan Syetar-Boznai serta rekan-rekanmu, para punggawa daerah seberang sungai Efrat, hendaklah kamu menjauhkan diri dari sana.
Maka sebab itu, hai Tatnai, penghulu negeri di seberang sana sungai dan Setar-Boznai dan segala kawanmu, orang Afarsekhai, yang di seberang sana sungai itu, jauhkanlah dirimu dari sana!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Tatnai: Ezra 5:3
your companions: Chal, their societies, Ezra 5:6
be ye far: Genesis 32:28, Genesis 43:14, Nehemiah 1:11, Psalms 76:10, Proverbs 21:1, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 27:8, Acts 4:26-28, Romans 8:31
Reciprocal: Ezra 4:9 - Apharsathchites Ezra 5:5 - then they returned Ezra 6:22 - the king Ezra 7:21 - beyond the river Ezra 7:25 - beyond the river Nehemiah 2:7 - let letters
Cross-References
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
Noah begat three sonnes, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.
With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee.
And the Lorde refrayned hym selfe from the euill whiche he sayd he would do vnto his people.
God is not a man that he should lye, neither the sonne of a ma that he should repent: should he say & not do? or should he speake, and not make it good?
Oh that there were such an heart in them that they woulde feare me, & kepe all my comaundementes alway, that it myght go well with them, and with their childen for euer?
O that they were wyse, and vnderstoode this, that they woulde consider their latter ende.
For the Lord shal iudge his people, and haue compassion on his seruautes, when he seeth that their power is gone, and that they be in a maner shut vp, or brought to naught and forsaken.
It repenteth me that I haue made Saul king: For he is turned from me, & hath not perfourmed my commaundementes. And Samuel was euill apayed, & cryed vnto the Lord all night.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore Tatnai, governor beyond the river,.... The river Euphrates, that side of it towards the land of Israel; Josephus z calls this man master of the horse:
Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence; keep at a distance from the Jews, and give them no disturbance, nor interrupt them in their work of building of the temple, but mind your own business and government.
z Ibid. (Antiqu.) l. 11. c. 4. sect. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This verse gives the words of the decree of Darius, which was grounded upon, and probably recited, the decree of Cyrus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezra 6:6. Be ye far from thence — Do not interrupt the Jews in their building; but, on the contrary further them all in your power.