Ezra 5:12
“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.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath,.... By their idolatries; which accounts for it how…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ezra 5:3-17
We have here, I. The cognizance which their neighbours soon took of the reviving of this good work. A jealous eye, it…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
after that So R.V., R.V. marg. - because that". The purpose of the passage is to account for the destruction of the…
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