Ezra 4:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and had them stopped by force.

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  • Ezra 4:8-9 : 8 Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, sent a letter against Jerusalem, to Artaxerxes the king; 9 The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
  • Ezra 4:17 : 17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, Peace to you:
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
  • Rom 3:15 : 15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

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  • Ezra 4:24
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    24So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

  • Ezra 4:3-13
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    82%

    3But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.

    4Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

    5And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

    6And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

    7And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.

    8Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, sent a letter against Jerusalem, to Artaxerxes the king;

    9The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

    10And the rest of the nations which the great and noble Osnappar took over and put in Samaria and the rest of the country over the river:

    11This is a copy of the letter which they sent to Artaxerxes the king: Your servants living across the river send these words:

    12We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.

    13The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

  • Ezra 4:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21Give an order now, that these men are to do nothing more, and that the building of the town is to be stopped, till I give an order.

    22Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage.

  • Ezra 5:3-6
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    3At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?

    4Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?

    5But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.

    6This is a copy of the letter which Tattenai, the ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and his friends the Apharsachites, living across the river, sent to Darius the king:

  • Ezra 6:12-14
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    12And may the God who has made it a resting-place for his name send destruction on all kings and peoples whose hands are outstretched to make any change in this or to do damage to this house of God at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given this order, let it be done with all care.

    13Then Tattenai, the ruler across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and their people, because of the order given by King Darius, did as he had said with all care.

    14And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.

  • Ezra 4:15-18
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    15So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.

    16We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.

    17Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, Peace to you:

    18And now the sense of the letter which you sent to us has been made clear to me,

  • Neh 4:6-8
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    6So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

    7But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

    8And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

  • Ezra 6:6-8
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    6So now, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and your people the Apharsachites across the river, keep far from that place:

    7Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.

    8Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

  • Neh 4:11-12
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    74%

    11And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

    12And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

  • Neh 4:15-16
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    74%

    15And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work

    16And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.

  • Ezra 5:8-9
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    74%

    8This is to give the king word that we went into the land of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is made of great stones, and has its walls supported with wood, and the work is going on with industry, and they are doing it well.

    9Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

  • Ezra 4:1
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    1Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

  • Neh 6:9
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    9For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

  • Neh 2:19
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    19But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

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    23And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;

  • Neh 4:1-2
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    1Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

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    16And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

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    8Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

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    6And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;

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    21And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care,

  • 2 Chr 24:13
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    13So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

  • Ezra 5:17
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    17So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.