Ezra 4:21

4:21 Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct. ¹ 

Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ²  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ³  until a report could be dispatched ⁴  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

[4:21]  ¹ tn Aram “until a command is issued from me.”

[5:5]  ² 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]  ³ tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

[5:5]  ⁴ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.