Discovery BoxEzra 5:1 
ContextTattenai Appeals to Darius
5:1 Then the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son 1 of Iddo 2 prophesied concerning the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem 3 in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.
Ezra 5:5
Context5:5 But God was watching over 4 the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped 5 until a report could be dispatched 6 to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.
1 tn Aram “son.” According to Zech 1:1 he was actually the grandson of Iddo.
2 tn Aram “and Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo the prophet.”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.
5 tn Aram “they did not stop them.”
6 tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.
