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Verse 14. _NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE MAINTENANCE FROM_ THE KING'S _PALACE_]
More literally: _Now because at all times we are salted_ _with the
salt of the palace_; i.e., We live on the king's bounty, and mu...
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WE HAVE MAINTENANCE - See the margin. The phrase “to eat a man’s
salt” is common in the East to this day; and is applied not only to
those who receive salaries, but to all who obtain their subsistence...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. The offer of the Samaritans refused (Ezra 4:1)_
2. The letter to King Artaxerxes (Ezra 4:7)
3. The king's reply (Ezra 4:17)
4. The work is stopped (Ezra 4:23)
Ezra 4:1. The adversar...
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EZRA 4:8 TO EZRA 6:18. EXTRACT FROM AN ARAMAIC DOCUMENT.
Ezra 4:8 contains a letter, together with the king's reply to it,
written by adversaries of the Jews to Artaxerxes for the purpose of
frustrat...
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WE HAVE MAINTENANCE. the salt of the palace is our salt. See note on
Numbers 18:19....
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Note on Ezra 4:7-23
The names of the Persian kings which occur in this chapter occasion
special difficulty. Upon their right identification necessarily
depends our understanding of the whole passage....
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2. Israel's enemies write letters to prevent rebuilding.
TEXT, EZRA 4:6-16
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Now in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they
wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah...
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_NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE MAINTENANCE FROM THE KING'S PALACE, AND IT WAS
NOT MEET FOR US TO SEE THE KING'S DISHONOUR, THEREFORE HAVE WE SENT
AND CERTIFIED THE KING;_
We have maintenance from the king's pa...
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FEUD BETWEEN THE JEWS AND SAMARITANS
This chapter describes the desire of the Samaritans to take part in
the rebuilding of the Temple, and their successful opposition to the
Jews on their request bei...
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 4
V1 The enemies of the *descendants of Judah and Benjamin heard that
they had returned from the *exile. Their enemies heard that they wer...
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MAINTENANCE. — more exactly, _we eat the salt of the palace._ This
seems to be a general expression for dependence on the king, whose
dishonour or loss they profess themselves unwilling to behold....
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כְּעַ֗ן כָּ ל ־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי ־מְלַ֤ח
הֵֽיכְלָא֙ מְלַ֔חְנָא וְ עַרְוַ֣ת
מַלְכָּ֔א לָ֥א אֲֽרִ֥יךְ לַ֖נָא...
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THE COST OF AN IDEALIST'S SUCCESS
Ezra 4:6
THE fourth chapter of the Book of Ezra contains an account of a
correspondence between the Samaritan colonists and two kings of
Persia, which follows sharpl...
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THE ENEMY'S SHORT-LIVED TRIUMPH
Ezra 4:11
The promoters of this letter were descendants of the heathen colonists
who had been sent into the land by the Assyrians, 2 Kings 17:24. It
was written to the...
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In this chapter we have the story of the opposition of the Samaritans,
and the consequent cessation of work on the Temple for a time. The
historic chronology presents difficulties. The subject is not...
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_Eaten. Chaldean, "on account of the salt, with which we have been
salted, from the palace." The king's officers were fed from his table.
Salt is put for all their emoluments; (Calmet) and hence the w...
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It should seem that Ahasuerus and Artaxerxes are both names of the
same person: probably meaning the same as King. And it should seem
that the enemies of the church caught at the first moment in the
o...
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But, in such a case, difficulties do not arise only from the weakness
of the remnant; they proceed, also, from elements with which the
remnant are outwardly connected, and which, at the same time, are...
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NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE MAINTENANCE FROM THE KING'S PALACE,.... Have posts
under the king, to which salaries were annexed, by which they were
supported, and which they had from the king's exchequer; or "s...
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Now because we have maintenance from [the king's] palace, and it was
not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent
and certified the king;
Ver. 14. Now because we have maintenan...
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_Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace_ In the Hebrew
it is, _we are salted with the salt of the palace._ That is, are
sustained by the king's munificence, or have a salary from him,...
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1 The aduersaries, being not accepted in the building of the Temple
with the Iewes, endeauour to hinder it.
7 Their Letter to Artaxerxes.
17 The decree of Artaxerxes.
23 The building is hindred.
1...
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THE LETTER TO ARTAXERXES...
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PRETENDED FRIENDSHIP AND OPPOSITION
(vv. 1-5)
Satan is subtle in the way he attacks a work of God. He appears to be
friendly, as is seen in the way the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin
came to Zer...
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WE HAVE MAINTENANCE FROM THE KINGS PALACE:
Chal. we are salted with the salt of the palace...
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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...
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Thus they pretend the king's service to their own malicious designs
and private interests....
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Ezra 4:14 Now H3705 because H6903 H3606 receive H1768 support H4415
(H8754) H4416 palace H1965 not H3809 proper H749 (H8750) see H2370
(H8749) kings H4430 dishonor H6173 therefore H5922 H1836 sent H79...
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THE SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF THE ENMITY REVEALED AGAINST THE RETURNEES UP
TO THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH (EZRA 4:6).
What follows up to Ezra 4:23 goes beyond the question of building the
Temple. The writer now...
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CONTENTS: Work hindered by adversaries.
CHARACTERS: Zerubbabel, Ahasuerus, Jeshua, Artazerxes, Rehum,
Shimshai.
CONCLUSION: God's work cannot be advanced but Satan will rage and the
gates of hell wi...
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Ezra 4:1. _The adversaries of Judah._ These were the Samaritans; that
is, Jews of the ten tribes, apostate from the religion of their
fathers, now intermarried with the heathen, who were worshippers o...
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_Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of
Judah._
THE HOSTILITY OF THE SAMARITANS TO THE JEWS
I. The tactics of the wicked. If they cannot bend the good to their
wishes and ai...
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EZRA 4:1 Enemies Stall the Project by Conspiring against It. The
rebuilding project encounters opposition from other groups in the
region, and the work ceases.
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have—(i.) The
proposal of the Samaritans to unite with the Jews in building the
Temple, and its rejection (Ezra 4:1). (ii.) The opposition of the
Sa...
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EXPOSITION
EZRA 4:7
AND IN THE DAYS OF ARTAXERXES. See the comment on Ezra 4:6. If
Artaxerxes be the Pseudo-Smerdis, we can readily understand why an
application was not made to him at once, and how...
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And when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children
of the captivity [had built the towers,] started to build the temple
of the Lord unto the LORD God of Israel; they came to Zerubb...
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Ezekiel 33:31; John 12:5; John 12:6; John 19:12...