Ezra 1:7

1:7 Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed ¹  in the temple of his gods.

Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ²  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ³  until a report could be dispatched ⁴  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and he gave them.”

[5:5]  ² 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.

[5:5]  ³ tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

[5:5]  ⁴ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.