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Sagradas Escrituras

Esdras 6:4

los órdenes, tres de piedra de mármol, y un orden de madera nueva y que el gasto sea dado de la casa del rey.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Rulers;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Ezra;   Persia;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Decrees;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   House;   Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Ezra, the Book of;   Medes;   Persia;   Temple;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Decree;   Israel, History of;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Zechariah, Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Medes, Me'dia;   Per'sia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - New;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cyrus;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
con tres hileras de piedras enormes y una hilera de madera; y que los gastos se paguen del tesoro real.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Los �rdenes, tres de piedra de m�rmol, y un orden de madera nueva y que el gasto sea dado de la casa del rey.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
con tres hileras de piedras grandes, y una hilera de madera nueva y que los gastos sean pagados por la casa del rey.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

three rows: 1 Kings 6:36

the expenses: Ezra 7:20-23, Psalms 68:29, Psalms 72:10, Isaiah 49:23, Isaiah 60:6-10, Revelation 12:16

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:2 - threescore Ezra 6:8 - the king's Ezra 7:15 - the silver Haggai 1:8 - to

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With three rows of great stones,.... Which Jarchi interprets of the walls of it, and these stones of marble; and so Ben Melech:

and a row of new timber; of cedar wood upon the rows of stone, see 1 Kings 6:36 or for the lining and wainscoting the walls:

and let the expenses be given out of the king's house; treasury, or exchequer; but it does not appear that this part of the decree was observed, at least hitherto; but the Jews built at their own expense, and perhaps did not exactly observe the directions given as to the dimensions of the house.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The word translated “row” occurs only in this passage. Some regard it as a “course,” and suppose that after every three courses of stone there followed a course of timber. Others understand three “storeys” of stone, with a fourth “storey” of woodwork on the summit (compare 1 Kings 6:5-6). Others consider that Cyrus intended to limit the thickness of the walls, which were not to exceed a breadth of three rows of stone, with an inner wooden wainscotting.

Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house - i. e., “out of the Persian revenue,” a portion of the decree which was probably not observed during the later years of Cyrus and during the reign of Cambyses, and hence the burthen fell upon the Jews themselves Ezra 2:68-69.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 6:4. Three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber — We have noticed this kind of building before, three courses of stones, and then a course of strong balk; and this continued to the square of the building.

And let the expenses be given — Cyrus had ordered wood to be cut at Libanus, and conveyed to Joppa at his expense; but it does not appear that he furnished the other expenses of the building, for we have already seen that the Jews contributed for the defraying of all others. But it appears that he provided at his own expense the sacrifices and offerings for the temple. See Ezra 6:9.


 
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