Ezra 5:16

Then came the same Sheshbazzar The work here ascribed to Sheshbazzar is evidently that over which Zerubbabel presided in chap. 3.

the foundation R.V. - the foundations "; so the Aramaic and Ezra 4:12.

since that time&c. A sentence showing that the cessation of the work mentioned in Ezra 4:5; Ezra 4:24 must not be taken perfectly literally. Building was carried on from time to time, but no longer on any effective scale. The interval of time was from 536 to 520.

finished R.V. completed. A different word in the original from that rendered -finish" in Ezra 5:3; Ezra 5:9; Ezra 5:11; Ezra 6:14.