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align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until <i>another</i> commandment shall be given from me.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezra/4.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/ezra/4.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/ezra/4.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezra/4.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/ezra/4.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/ezra/4.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezra/4.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/ezra/4.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/ezra/4.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a 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class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/ezra/4.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/ezra/4-21.htm" title="Give you now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until another commandment shall be given from me.">Ezra 4:21</a></span>. <span class="ital">Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease — </span>Thus he suffered himself to be imposed upon by their fraud and falsehood, and took no care to examine the allegations of their petition concerning what the Jews were now doing; but took all they had asserted for matter of fact, and therefore was very ready to gratify them with an order of council to stay proceedings. <span class="ital">Until another commandment shall be given — </span>So that, it appears, however, he kept his ears open to further information; which if he should receive, different from theirs, he might give other orders. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/ezra/4.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>4:6-24 It is an old slander, that the prosperity of the church would be hurtful to kings and princes. Nothing can be more false, for true godliness teaches us to honour and obey our sovereign. But where the command of God requires one thing and the law of the land another, we must obey God rather than man, and patiently submit to the consequences. All who love the gospel should avoid all appearance of evil, lest they should encourage the adversaries of the church. The world is ever ready to believe any accusation against the people of God, and refuses to listen to them. The king suffered himself to be imposed upon by these frauds and falsehoods. Princes see and hear with other men's eyes and ears, and judge things as represented to them, which are often done falsely. But God's judgment is just; he sees things as they are.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezra/4.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Mighty kings ... - If this reference can scarcely have been to David or Solomon (see marginal reference), of whom neither the Babylonian nor the Assyrian archives would be likely to have had any account - it would probably be to Menahem <a href="/2_kings/15-16.htm">2 Kings 15:16</a> and Josiah (<a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/34-6.htm">2 Chronicles 34:6-7</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/35-18.htm">2 Chronicles 35:18</a>). <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/ezra/4.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>14. we have maintenance from the king's palace—literally, "we are salted with the salt of the palace." "Eating a prince's salt" is an Oriental phrase, equivalent to "receiving maintenance from him."<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/ezra/4.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/ezra/4.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease,.... From building: <p>and that this city be not builded until another commandment shall be given from me; he might suspect that this case, in all its circumstances, was not truly stated, and that hereafter he might see reason to recede from the present orders he gave; and the rather, as by searching, and perhaps on his own knowledge, must have observed, that his father Cyrus had shown favour to the Jews, and had not only set them at liberty, but had encouraged them to rebuild their temple; which might be what they were about, and was the case, and nothing else, except their houses to dwell in. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/ezra/4.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezra/4.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">21</span>. <span class="ital">Give ye now commandment</span>) R.V. <span class="bld">Make ye now a decree.</span> Cf. 19. The Samaritan officials clearly held some authority over the whole adjoining territory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">and</span> that <span class="ital">this city be not builded</span>] See notes on <a href="/context/ezra/4-12.htm" title="Be it known to the king, that the Jews which came up from you to us are come to Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations....">Ezra 4:12-13</a>. The king’s alarm lest a strong city should be made of Jerusalem agrees rather with the time of Nehemiah than with that of Zerubbabel. The naval victories of the Greeks had rendered the Persian coast frontier peculiarly vulnerable.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">until</span> another <span class="ital">commandment shall be given from me</span>] R.V. <span class="bld">until a decree shall be made by me.</span> The A.V. by introducing the word ‘another’ produced a needless ambiguity. The original has ‘the decree’, i.e. the permission to build.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezra/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Until another commandment shall be given</span>. It can scarcely be supposed that the Pseudo-Smerdis had any intention of issuing "another commandment;" but, since "the laws of the Medes and Persians," as a general rule, "altered not" (<a href="/esther/1-19.htm">Esther 1:19</a>; <a href="/daniel/6-15.htm">Daniel 6:15</a>), it may well be that the clause before us was one inserted as a matter of form in most decrees, to prevent them from being irrevocable. Ezra 4:21<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/ezra/4.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>"Give ye now commandment to hinder these people (to keep them from the work), that this city be not built until command (sc. to build) be given from me." יתּשׂם, Ithpeal of שׂוּם.<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/ezra/4-21.htm">Ezra 4:21 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../ezra/4-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezra 4:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezra 4:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezra/4-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezra 4:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezra 4:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>