에스라 4:6의 인용 해설

Shimshai: The king's scribe was an anti-Semite; and he was [the royal scribe] from the times of Cyrus. As it is stated in the book of Ezra (4) that he wrote an accusation against building the Temple, until Cyrus came and annulled it. And he also did this in the days of Ahasuerus, as it is stated (Ezra 4:6), "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, at the start of his reign, (he) wrote an accusation."

Behold! I untie its knots I untie its knots I thwart the plot of the enemies who wrote an accusation to stop the work.

The ten sons of Haman. I saw in Seder Olam: These are the ten who wrote a [false] accusation against Yehudah and Yerusholayim, as it is written in the Book of Ezra: “And during the reign of Achashveirosh, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the dwellers of Yehudah and Yerusholayim.”¹Ezra 4:6. And what was the [purpose of the] accusation? To stop those who were coming up from the exile during the days of Koresh, who had started to build the Beis Hamikdosh, and the Cutheans slandered them and stopped them.²Seder Olam Rabbah 29. But when Koresh died, and Achashveirosh reigned, and Haman was promoted, he [Haman] saw to it that those in Yerusholayim would not engage in the construction, so they [Haman’s ten sons] sent in the name of Achashveirosh to the princes of the other side of the river to stop them [from building].