Ezra 5:1

Tattenai Appeals to Darius

5:1 Then the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son ¹  of Iddo ²  prophesied concerning the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem ³  in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ⁴  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ⁵  until a report could be dispatched ⁶  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

Ezra 6:18

6:18 They appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their divisions over the worship of God at Jerusalem, ⁷  in accord with ⁸  the book of Moses.

Ezra 7:14

7:14 You are authorized ⁹  by the king and his seven advisers to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your possession, ¹⁰ 

Ezra 7:26

7:26 Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely ¹¹  liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

Ezra 9:5

9:5 At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, ¹²  with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.

[5:1]  ¹ tn Aram “son.” According to Zech 1:1 he was actually the grandson of Iddo.

[5:1]  ² tn Aram “and Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo the prophet.”

[5:1]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:5]  ⁴ tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

[5:5]  ⁵ tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

[5:5]  ⁶ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.

[6:18]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:18]  ⁸ tn Aram “according to the writing of.”

[7:14]  ⁹ tn Aram “sent.”

[7:14]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “in your hand.”

[7:26]  ¹¹ tn On the meaning of this word see HALOT 1820-21 s.v. אָסְפַּרְנָא; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 14.

[9:5]  ¹² tn The Hebrew word used here is a hapax legomenon. It refers to the self-abasement that accompanies religious sorrow and fasting.