John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:12
Ezr 4:12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls [thereof], and joined the foundations. Ver. 12. The rebellious and the bad city ] After so many years doth Jerusalem rue one perfidious act of Zedekiah; and, having once been treacherous, it still hears, "The rebellious and bad city," as if it had been a very πονηροπολις , a professed sanctuary of roguery (as the Jesuits... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:15
Ezra 4:15That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers.Church registersin a general view, all human records are interesting, if they are scarcely more than registers of names. Those names are always appended to some act or event, however concisely stated, and thus these mere catalogues serve to show us how they who have gone before us have been occupied, and are the founts and rills which flow into the great stream of human history; or, rather perhaps, to change the... read more