Now when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people of the exile were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel,

犹大和便雅悯的敌人听说被掳归回的人为耶和华以色列的神建造殿宇，

犹大和便雅悯的敌人听说被掳归回的人为耶和华—以色列的上帝建造殿宇，

犹大和便雅悯的敌人听说被掳归回的人为耶和华—以色列的神建造殿宇，

犹大和便雅悯的敌人听说流亡者回来要为以色列的上帝耶和华建殿，

犹大和便雅悯的敌人听见被掳回来的人为耶和华以色列的神重建圣殿，

猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽說被擄歸回的人為耶和華－以色列的神建造殿宇，

猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽說被擄歸回的人為耶和華－以色列的上帝建造殿宇，

猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽說被擄歸回的人為耶和華－以色列的神建造殿宇，

猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽說流亡者回來要為以色列的上帝耶和華建殿，

猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽見被擄回來的人為耶和華以色列的神重建聖殿，

猶大和便雅憫的敵人聽說流亡回來的人為永恆主以色列的上帝建造殿堂，

猶大便雅憫之敵、聞俘囚之眾、為以色列之上帝耶和華建殿、

猶大便雅憫二族之敵、聞被虜者歸而建殿、奉事以色列族之上帝耶和華、

猶大及便雅憫之敵、即撒瑪利亞人聞被擄而歸之民、為主以色列之天主建殿、

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel,

The people who had returned from Babylon were building a temple to honor the Lord. He is the God of Israel. The enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard about it.

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,

The enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were rebuilding a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel.

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the Lord God of Israel,

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple unto Jehovah, the God of Israel;

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for Yahweh, the God of Israel,

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin learned that the former exiles were building a temple for the LORD God of Israel,

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

All the articles of gold and silver totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

The exiles held the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure. Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs for all the exiles, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

And the sons of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic.Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows—Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. And now

Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.He shall build a house for My name, and he shall be My son and I will be his Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until Messiah the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty two weeks; it will be built again, with streets and moat, even in times of distress.

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king began speaking and said to Daniel,“ Are you that Daniel who is one of the exiles from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

But now the Lord my God has secured me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.So behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, just as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying,‘ Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.’

for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry, and he mocked the Jews.And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy people of Samaria and said,“ What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore the temple for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Can they revive the stones from the heaps of rubble, even the burned ones?”Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him, and he said,“ Even what they are building— if a fox were to jump on it, it would break their stone wall down!”Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity.Do not forgive their guilt and do not let their sin be wiped out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on, and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry.So all of them conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.And so in Judah it was said:“ The strength of the burden bearers is failing, Yet there is much rubble; And we ourselves are unable To rebuild the wall.”And our enemies said,“ They will not know or see until we come among them, kill them, and put a stop to the work.”

But the exiles did so. And Ezra the priest selected men who were the heads of fathers’ households for each of their father’s households, all of them by name. So they convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.

So they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they were to assemble at Jerusalem,

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him.