Ezra 3:5-6

3:5

continual <08548> [the continual.]

voluntarily offered <05068> [willingly.]

3:6

temple ....... established <01964 03068 03245> [the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.]

Heb. the temple of the Lord was not yet founded.

Ezra 4:1

4:1

enemies <06862> [the 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.

exiles <01473 01121> [children of the captivity. Heb. sons of the transportation.]