Discovery BoxEzra 5:5 
Context5:5 But God was watching over 1 the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped 2 until a report could be dispatched 3 to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.
Ezra 6:7
Context6:7 Leave the work on this temple of God alone. 4 Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this temple of God in its proper place.
Ezra 10:8
Context10:8 Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.
1 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.
2 tn Aram “they did not stop them.”
3 tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.
4 tc For the MT reading “the work on this temple of God” the LXX reads “the servant of the Lord Zurababel” [= Zerubbabel].
