September 14, 2011 – Ezra 4 - 5:7

Here we are introduced to King Darius, familiar to us because of the story of Daniel and the Lions. It says that construction was delayed until the second year of Darius. We do not see Darius’ response about building it and I don’t imagine we will see any connection between this story and Daniel, but we know from Daniel that Darius allows Jews to pray to God and allows prayer to Israel’s God, if not recommending it. We will see how that image may reflect or be similar to what he acts like here.