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Ezra 4
Ezra 4 — Overview
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Ezra 4 — OverviewEzra 4 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe good work of rebuilding the temple was no sooner begun than it met
with opposition from those that bore ill will to it; the Samaritans
were enemies to the Jews and their religion, and they set themselves to…Ezra 4 — OverviewEzra 4 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe contents of this chapter are the offer the Samaritans made to the Jews, to assist them in building the temple, which having refused, they gave them all the trouble they could, Ezr 4:1 and a letter of theirs to…Ezra 4:1-5Ezra 4:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here an instance of the old enmity that was put between the
seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. God's temple cannot be
built, but Satan will rage, and the gates of hell will fight against
it.…Ezra 4:1Ezra 4:1 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgethe adversaries: These were the Samaritans, the descendants of the various nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants captive. Ezra 7:9; 1 Kings 5:4-5; 1…Ezra 4:2Ezra 4:2 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeZerubbabel: Ezra 1:5, Ezra 2:2, Ezra 3:2, Ezra 3:12
Let us: Proverbs 26:23-26; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; Galatians 2:4; 2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Peter 2:1-2
we do: 2 Kings 17:24, 2 Kings 17:27-33, 2 Kings 17:41
Esarhaddon:…Ezra 4:2Ezra 4:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThen they came to Zerubbabel, and the chief of the fathers,.... These they addressed, as knowing that if they could not prevail with them, they could never succeed in their design; and these were no doubt the principal…