Passage Research
Ezra 5 — Sermon Preparation
Zerubbabel and Jeshua resume construction encouraged by the prophets Haggai and Zechariah; a report requesting verification is sent to King Darius. Below is a research summary for Ezra 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 17
- verses
- 329 / 128
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Ezra 5 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנָא | bᵉnâʼ | H1124 | 12 | build |
| אֱלָהּ | ʼĕlâhh | H426 | 12 | God |
| בַּבֶל | Babel | H895 | 6 | Babylon. |
| יְרוּשָׁלֵם | Yᵉrûwshâlêm | H3390 | 6 | |
| שֻׁם | shum | H8036 | 5 | name. |
| אֲמַר | ʼămar | H560 | 5 | command, declare, say, speak, tell. |
| הֵיכַל | hêykal | H1965 | 4 | palace, temple. |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Ezra 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We left the temple-work at a full stop; but, being God's work, it shall be revived, and here we have an account of the reviving of it. It was hindered by might and power, but it was set a-going again "by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts." Now here we are told how that blessed Spirit, I. Warmed its cool-hearted friends and excited them to build, ver. 1, 2. II. Cooled its hot-headed enemies, and brought them to better tempers; for, though they secretly disliked the work as much as those in the foregoing chapter, yet, 1. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on Ezra 5:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Ezra 5:1
- Babylon 1— Ezra 5:12
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