Esdras 4:1-24 NVI

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:1-3

Ezra 4:1-3Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard.The proposal of the Samaritans to the JewsI. The proposal made by the Samaritans1. Plausible in its form.2. But evil in itself.(1) They were not Israelites.(2) They did not worship Jehovah as the true God. To have received such a people into community and co-operation with the true people of God would have been an set of utter unfaithfulness and disloyalty to Him.(3) Their design in making this proposal was an unworthy one.(4) The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:4-24

Ezra 4:4-24Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah.The hostility of the Samaritans to the JewsI. The tactics of the wicked. If they cannot bend the good to their wishes and aims by plausible pretences, they alter their tactics and betake themselves to unscrupulous opposition in various forms.II. The venality of the wicked. The Samaritans “hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purposes.” It is reasonable to infer that these counsellors were men of some... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:14

Ezra 4:14Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace.Good cause for great zealI. We acknowledge a very gracious fact.1. We have been maintained from the King’s palace--(1) In things temporal.(2) In things spiritual.2. Our maintenance from the King’s palace has cost His Majesty dear. He spared not His own Son.3. We have had a bountiful supply.4. We have had an unfailing portion.5. The supply has ennobled us.6. How cheering it is to have such a soul-satisfying portion in God.II. Here... read more

Joseph Exell

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:17-24

Ezra 4:17-24Them sent the king an answer.The temporary triumph of the wickedI. Examine the letter of the king. This letter suggests--1. That the subtlety of the wicked frequently obtains a temporary triumph over the good.2. That one generation frequently suffers through the sins of another and earlier one. The Jews smarted for their sins of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah.3. That the cause of God is frequently reproached and hindered by the evil conduct of some of its adherents. The rebellions of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:1

Ezr 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel; Ver. 1. Now when the adversaries of Judah ] Aroused by those loud acclamations and outcries, Ezra 3:12-13 . These adversaries were those Samaritans, Ezra 4:3 , the kind of mongrels who wore religion as a cloak, which they either put on or threw off at pleasure, and as occasion required. Satan, saith one, doth not always appear in one and the same... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:2

Ezr 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. Ver. 2. Let us build with you ] Craftily and treacherously do they offer their cost and pains, ut illis intermixti personas committerent, atque ita opus interverterent, saith one well; that, mingling with them, they might set them together by the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:3

Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. Ver. 3. But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua ] Jeshua would be one to keep them out, though they slighted him in their application to Zerubbabel and the chief of the fathers, Ezra 4:2 . Ye have nothing to do with us ] You... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:4

Ezr 4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, Ver. 4. Then the people of the land ] Who the nearer they came unto a conjunction with the Jews in matters of religion the deeper hatred they bare them. Thus at this day, a Jew hates a Christian worse than he doth a Pagan; so doth a Turk hate a Persian worse than he doth a Christian; a Papist, a Protestant worse than he doth a Turk; a formalist, a Puritan worse than he doth a Papist, ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:5

Ezr 4:5 And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. Ver. 5. And hired counsellors against them ] But good counsellors would not have been hired, either to bolster out a bad cause, or to outface a good; to justify the wicked for a reward, or to take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. There is a notable instance of this in Papinian, a Pagan counsellor. Thou mayest (said he to... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:1-3

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:4-24

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:14

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:15

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezra 4:17-24

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezra 4:5

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