2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 185
5 : S E C O N D
Asar-haddon,
Chap.4:3.
Cf. 2 Ki.
17:27-41.
Note:
These are
imposters
who replaced
the Northern
Kingdom
earlier and
infused their
gods into
the worship
of Yahuah
falsely which
He rejected.
These are
the origin
of the
Hasmoneans
and
Pharisees
who would
attack the
Temple in
165 B.C.
T E M P L E
them, We will build together
with you.
69 For we likewise, as you, do
obey Yahuah, and do sacrifice
unto him from the days of
Esar-haddon the king of the
Assyrians who brought us
hither.
70 Then Zerubbabel and
Yahusha, and the chief of the
families of Israel said unto
them, It is not for us and you
to build together an house
unto Yahuah our Elohim.
71 We ourselves alone
will build unto Yahuah of
Israel, according as Cyrus
F O U N D A T I O N
L A I D
the King of the Persians has
commanded us.
Note: This
passage
72 But the heathen of the calls those
land lying heavy upon the Samaritan
heathens.
do
inhabitants of
Yahudea, They
not worship
and holding them straight, Yahuah.
These are the
origin of the
hindered their building:
Hasmoneans
73 And by their secret plots, of Modi-in
which is
and popular persuasions, and in Dan in
Samaria not
commotions, they hindered Yahudea.
the finishing of the building,
all the time that king Cyrus
lived, so they were hindered
from building for the space of Until the
two years, until the reign of second year
of Darius.
Ezra 4:5-7.
Darius.
