What Does Ezra 5:2 Mean in the King James?
Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The name of deliverance rises to build God’s house in the place whose name carries wholeness, while prophetic voices uphold the builders.
THE MEANING
What belongs to God can be built through your rising, with others beside you. A voice that bears God’s message strengthens the hands doing the work; it does not replace them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a word from God makes your hands unnecessary: the prophets help, while the builders still build.
THE ROOT
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēshūaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
Deliver, bring out into spaciousness; in the name, Yahweh delivers.
Jeshua’s name belongs to the root of deliverance, and he rises here to build God’s house. Deliverance is present as restoration taking shape among people, not only as escape from what constricts.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
The name and the work share the language of deliverance: the builders rise to restore the house.
moshiaʿ: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
The deliverer branch makes the name a nature, not merely a label attached to one of the builders.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Be whole, complete, sound; the root behind shalom, wholeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries shalom’s sense of wholeness, with the dual ending -ayim: the two wholenesses. The house of God is being built in a place whose name holds the destination of restoration within it.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, completeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
The place where the house is built carries wholeness in its name.
shalem: Whole, complete, sound
שָׁלֵם
This branch gives the rebuilding its deeper direction: toward what is made whole.
מְסַעֲדִין
mesaʿadin
GROWS FROM
סעד
s-ʿ-d
Support, uphold, sustain.
The word translated “helping” carries the sense of sustaining or holding someone up. The prophets’ presence is practical support for the builders: their voices strengthen the work without taking its place.
ALSO GROWS
saʿad: Support, sustain
סָעַד
This is the action carried by the prophets’ help: they uphold those who are building.
misaʿad: A support or prop
מִסְעָד
The image of a prop makes the relationship concrete: the prophets steady the builders as the work proceeds.
THE PATTERN
Restoration advances when people do the work and strengthening voices support them.
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.THE THREAD
And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.The same בנה (b-n-h), “build,” root carries the work from its beginning here to its completion. The elders build and prosper through prophetic voices, showing that the help beside the builders continues through the whole work.
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