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Ezra 5:11

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.

Ezra 5:11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezra 5:11

Theological / Devotional

Servants. Humbly, the elders claimed to be no more than servants of God and to be following His directions. Thus they were bound to obey when God should speak.

God of heaven. This name of God was the one Jews customarily used in speaking about Him to their Persian overlords, as we know from the Elephantine papyri (see pp. 79–83).

Great king of Israel. That is, Solomon, greatest of all Jewish monarchs, so far as the extent and prosperity of his kingdom are concerned and the position it occupied among other kingdoms of his time.

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