King James Version
Ezra 5:13 in the King James Version says “But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.” — study this verse from Ezra chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.”
Ezra 5:13 · KJV
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; governor: or, deputy
And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“in the first”
H2298as card. one; as article single; as an ordinal, first; adverbially, at once
that, used as relative conjunction, and especially (with a preposition) in adverbial phrases; also as preposition of
“made”
H7761to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“a decree”
H2942properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively)
“house”
H1005a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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