Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 5:4

4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?

Either 1. We Tatnai and Shethar-boznai. And so this is an additional and more express enquiry concerning the names of the Builders. And this sense is favoured by comparing v. 9, 10. where the same questions here severally made, v. 3, & 4. are in like manner distinguished. And so the sacred Writer speaks this in their Person. Such variation of Persons being frequent in the Hebrew Language, as the learned know. Or 2. We Jews; and so the Translation must be a little varied, and the words read without an Interrogation thus, Then we told them accordingly, (i. e. according to what they asked) what were the names of the men that made this building, i. e. who were the chief undertakers and encouragers of this work: For although the Hebrew particle, mah, rendred, what, seems always to be used interrogatively, yet the Chaldee particle, man, here rendred what, is used otherwise, as is manifest from Dan. 4. 17.

Marginal references: Ver. 10.; Chal. that build this building.