SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:2
vinieron a Zorobabel, y a los cabezas de los padres, y les dijeron: Edificaremos con vosotros, porque como vosotros buscaremos a vuestro Dios, y a él sacrificamos desde los días de Esar-hadón rey de Asiria, que nos hizo subir aquí.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Ezra 4:2
Verse 2. Let us build with you] We acknowledge the same God, are solicitous for his glory, and will gladly assist you in this work. But that they came with no friendly intention, the context proves.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. Then they came to Zerubbabel, and the chief of the fathers , etc.] These they addressed, as knowing that if they could not prevail with them, they could never succeed in their design; and these were no doubt the principal of the Samaritans that applied: and said unto them, let us build with you ; that is, the temple, they proposed to join with them, and assist them in it; which proposal at first sight might seem very agreeable and welcome, and would have been so had they been sincere, but they were not; they hoped, by getting among them, to have sown discord among them, and disunited them; and so by these or other means to have retarded the building; or if it went forward, that they might have a claim to it as theirs, at least as to set up their own idols in a part of it; the reasons they gave follow: for we seek your God as ye do ; which was false, for they did not worship him alone, but with idols, nor in the same manner as the Jews did: and we do sacrifice unto him ; but even that could not recommend them to the Jews, since they ought not to sacrifice, even to the Lord himself, but at Jerusalem: there is a various reading here; the textual reading is, “we do not sacrifice”; that is, to idols; the marginal reading is, “we sacrifice to him”, which we follow; Aben Ezra takes in both, perhaps most rightly; “we do not sacrifice to any other, but to him”; which was also false: since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assur, who brought us up hither ; to Samaria, from Babylon, and other places; (see 2 Kings 17:24).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Every attempt to revive true religion will stir up the opposition of Satan, and of those in whom he works. The adversaries were the Samaritans, who had been planted in the land of Israel, 2Ki 17. It wa plain that they did not mean to unite in the worship of the Lord according to his word. Let those who discourage a good work, and weake them that are employed in it, see whose pattern they follow. (Ez 4:6-24)
Original Hebrew
ויגשׁו 5066 אל 413 זרבבל 2216 ואל 413 ראשׁי 7218 האבות 1 ויאמרו 559 להם 1992 נבנה 1129 עמכם 5973 כי 3588 ככם נדרושׁ 1875 לאלהיכם 430 ולא 3808 אנחנו 587 זבחים 2076 מימי 3117 אסר חדן 634 מלך 4428 אשׁור 804 המעלה 5927 אתנו 853 פה׃ 6311
