Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezra 4:21
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until [another] commandment shall be given from me.
21. Give ye now commandment) R.V. Make ye now a decree. Cf. 19. The Samaritan officials clearly held some authority over the whole adjoining territory.
and that this city be not builded ] See notes on Ezr 4:12-13. The king’s alarm lest a strong city should be made of Jerusalem agrees rather with the time of Nehemiah than with that of Zerubbabel. The naval victories of the Greeks had rendered the Persian coast frontier peculiarly vulnerable.
until another commandment shall be given from me ] R.V. until a decree shall be made by me. The A.V. by introducing the word ‘another’ produced a needless ambiguity. The original has ‘the decree’, i.e. the permission to build.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 21. Until another commandment shall be given from me.] The rebuilding was only provisionally suspended. The decree was, Let it cease for the present; nor let it proceed at any time without an order express from me.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease,…. From building:
and that this city be not builded until another commandment shall be given from me; he might suspect that this case, in all its circumstances, was not truly stated, and that hereafter he might see reason to recede from the present orders he gave; and the rather, as by searching, and perhaps on his own knowledge, must have observed, that his father Cyrus had shown favour to the Jews, and had not only set them at liberty, but had encouraged them to rebuild their temple; which might be what they were about, and was the case, and nothing else, except their houses to dwell in.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Ezr 4:21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until [another] commandment shall be given from me.
Ver. 21. Give you now commandment ] Chaldee, Make a decree; which yet did but carry on God’s decree; for while persecutors sit backward to his command, they row forwards to his decree.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
commandment = decree.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Give
Chald. make a new decree.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Give ye: etc. Chal, Make a decree, Ezr 4:19
Reciprocal: Ezr 6:8 – hindered
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ezr 4:21. Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease Thus he suffered himself to be imposed upon by their fraud and falsehood, and took no care to examine the allegations of their petition concerning what the Jews were now doing; but took all they had asserted for matter of fact, and therefore was very ready to gratify them with an order of council to stay proceedings. Until another commandment shall be given So that, it appears, however, he kept his ears open to further information; which if he should receive, different from theirs, he might give other orders.