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Ezra 4

Ezra 4:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then
'edayin (Hebrew #116)
then (of time)
KJV usage: now, that time, then.
Pronounce: ed-ah'-yin
Origin: (Aramaic) of uncertain derivation
ceased
btel (Hebrew #989)
to stop
KJV usage: (cause, make to), cease, hinder.
Pronounce: bet-ale'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 988
the work
`abiydah (Hebrew #5673)
labor or business
KJV usage: affairs, service, work.
Pronounce: ab-ee-daw'
Origin: (Aramaic) from 5648
of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1005)
(Aramaic) corresponding to 1004
KJV usage: house.
Pronounce: bah-yith
of God
'elahh (Hebrew #426)
God
KJV usage: God, god.
Pronounce: el-aw'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 433
which is at Jerusalem
Yruwshalem (Hebrew #3390)
corresponding to 3389
KJV usage: Jerusalem
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lame'
Origin: (Chaldee) yer-oo-shaw-lame
. So it ceased
btel (Hebrew #989)
to stop
KJV usage: (cause, make to), cease, hinder.
Pronounce: bet-ale'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 988
hava' (Hebrew #1934)
corresponding to 1933; to exist; used in a great variety of applications (especially in connection with other words)
KJV usage: be, become, + behold, + came (to pass), + cease, + cleave, + consider, + do, + give, + have, + judge, + keep, + labour, + mingle (self), + put, + see, + seek, + set, + slay, + take heed, tremble, + walk, + would.
Pronounce: hav-aw'
Origin: (Aramaic) orhavah (Aramaic) {hav-aw'}
unto
`ad (Hebrew #5705)
(Aramaic) corresponding to 5704; X and, at, for, (hither-)to, on till, (un-)to, until, within.
Pronounce: ad
the second
treyn (Hebrew #8648)
corresponding to 8147; two
KJV usage: second, + twelve, two.
Pronounce: ter-ane'
Origin: (Aramaic) feminine tarteyn {tar-tane'}
year
shnah (Hebrew #8140)
(Aramaic) corresponding to 8141
KJV usage: year.
Pronounce: shen-aw'
of the reign
malkuw (Hebrew #4437)
dominion (abstractly or concretely)
KJV usage: kingdom, kingly, realm, reign.
Pronounce: mal-koo'
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 4438
of Darius
Daryavesh (Hebrew #1868)
(Aramaic) corresponding to 1867
KJV usage: Darius.
Pronounce: daw-reh-yaw-vaysh'
king
melek (Hebrew #4430)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to 4428
of Persia
Parac (Hebrew #6540)
(Aramaic) corresponding to 6539
KJV usage: Persia, Persians.
Pronounce: paw-ras'
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Darius,
God,
House,
House of God,
Jerusalem,
King,
Persia; Persians,
Year

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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So.
Neh. 6:3,9• 3And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
 9For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. (Neh. 6:3,9)
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Job 20:5• 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? (Job 20:5)
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1 Thess. 2:18• 18Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. (1 Thess. 2:18)
Darius.This was Darius Hystaspes, one of the seven princes who slew the usurper Smerdis:
he ascended the throne of Persia, A.M. 3483, B.C. 521, and reigned 36 years.
Ezra 5:5• 5But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter. (Ezra 5:5)
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Ezra 6:1• 1Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. (Ezra 6:1)
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Hag. 1:15• 15In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. (Hag. 1:15)
• This last verse, however, connects itself with verse 5, and gives the result of the enemy's opposition of which verses 4 and 5 contain a general summary. The parenthesis gives the details of the way in which Artaxerxes was prevailed upon to issue his decree. (“The Book of Ezra: Restoration From Babylon: Ezra 4” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then ceased the work of the house of Godc which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Dariusd king of Persia.

JND Translation Notes

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c
Aramaic, Elah (Heb. Eloah. see Gen. 1.1). The parts of the book written in Aramaic are chs. 4.8 to 6.18, and ch. 7.12 to 26; they have always Elah. El does not occur in Ezra.
d
Darius Hystaspes, as ch. 4.5.