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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Ezra 6:14 - 6:14
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And the elders: Ezr 3:8, Ezr 4:3
through: Ezr 5:1-2; Hag 1:12-14, Hag 2:2-15; Zech. 2:1-4:14, Zec 6:1-15
finished it: Zec 4:9
according: Isa 44:28; Hag 1:8
commandment: Chal, decree
Cyrus: Ezr 6:13, Ezr 1:1-4, Ezr 4:24, Ezr 5:13
Artaxerxes: This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed ΜακÏοχειÏ, or Longimanus, or in Persian, Ardsheer deeraz dest, "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, am 3540, bc 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition. Ezr 7:1