SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:9
Entonces preguntamos a los ancianos, diciéndoles así: ¿Quién os dio mandamiento para edificar esta Casa, y para fundar estos muros?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. Then asked we those elders , etc.] The elders of the province of Judea; the chief men of it: who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls ? (see Ezra 5:3).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 3-17 - While employed in God's work, we are under his special protection; his eye is upon us for good. This should keep us to our duty, and encourag us therein, when difficulties are ever so discouraging. The elders of the Jews gave the Samaritans an account of their proceedings. Let u learn hence, with meekness and fear, to give a reason of the hope tha is in us; let us rightly understand, and then readily declare, what we do in God's service, and why we do it. And while in this world, we always shall have to confess, that our sins have provoked the wrath of God. All our sufferings spring from thence, and all our comforts from his unmerited mercy. However the work may seem to be hindered, yet the Lord Jesus Christ is carrying it on, his people are growing unto a holy temple in the Lord, for a habitation of God through the Spirit __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אדין 116 שׁאלנא 7593 לשׂביא 7868 אלך 479 כנמא 3660 אמרנא 560 להם מן 4479 שׂם 7761 לכם טעם 2942 ביתא 1005 דנה 1836 למבניה 1124 ואשׁרנא 846 דנה 1836 לשׁכללה׃ 3635
