Ezra 5:12
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
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Gill's Exposition
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath,.... By their idolatries; which accounts for it how it was that they who were the servants of the great God of heaven and earth,…
We have here, I. The cognizance which their neighbours soon took of the reviving of this good work. A jealous eye, it seems, they had upon them, and no sooner did the Spirit of God stir up the friends…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
after that So R.V., R.V. marg. - because that". The purpose of the passage is to account for the destruction of the Temple and the captivity of God's people. The conjunction is not temporal, but…
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