Ezra 5:1
Haggai <02292> [A.M. 3484. B.C. 520. Haggai.]
These are the same Haggai and Zechariah, whose writings we have among the twelve minor prophets; and, as a great part of them refer to the events here recorded, the reader will find it very profitable to compare them with the history.
Zechariah <02148> [Zechariah.]
son ... Iddo <01247 05714> [the son of Iddo.]
That is, "the grandson of Iddo;" for Zechariah was the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.
name <08036> [in the name.]
Ezra 7:14
[of the king. Chal. from before the king. seven counsellors.]
Seven princes of Persia having conspired against and slain the usurper Smerdis, and thus made way for the family of Darius, which afterwards filled the throne, the Persian kings of this race had always seven chief princes as their counsellors, who possessed peculiar privileges, were his chief assistants in the government, and by whose advice all the public affairs of the empire were transacted. The names of these counsellors are given in the parallel place of the book of Esther.
law <01882> [according.]
God <0426> [thy God.]
Ezra 5:8
province <04083> [the province.]
great God <0426 07229> [the great God.]
large stones <069 01560> [great stones. Chal. stones of rolling.]
