Kommentar zu Esra 4:2
וַיִּגְּשׁ֨וּ אֶל־זְרֻבָּבֶ֜ל וְאֶל־רָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֗וֹת וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ לָהֶם֙ נִבְנֶ֣ה עִמָּכֶ֔ם כִּ֣י כָכֶ֔ם נִדְר֖וֹשׁ לֵֽאלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם ולא [וְל֣וֹ ׀] אֲנַ֣חְנוּ זֹבְחִ֗ים מִימֵי֙ אֵסַ֤ר חַדֹּן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר הַמַּעֲלֶ֥ה אֹתָ֖נוּ פֹּֽה׃
Da traten sie hin zu Serubabel und zu den Familienhäuptern, und sprachen zu ihnen: Wir wollen mit euch bauen, denn wie ihr wollen wir euern Gott suchen; denn nur ihm opfern wir seit den Tagen Eßar Haddan’s, des Königs von Assyrien, der uns hierhergebracht hat.
Rashi on Ezra
and said to them, “Let us build with you...” They said this in order that through them the work of the Temple should be disrupted, that they should build no more.
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Rashi on Ezra
since the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria the son of Sannecherib, for after Sannecherib settled them there, as it says (II Kings 29:37, Isa. 37:38): “And he was prostrating himself in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adramelech and Sharezer, his sons, slew him by the sword etc., and his son Esarhaddon reigned in his stead.”
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