Ezra 6:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I have given orders that if anyone makes any change in this word, one of the supports is to be pulled out of his house, and he is to be lifted up and fixed to it; and his house is to be made waste for this;

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  • Dan 2:5 : 5 The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.
  • Dan 3:29 : 29 And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.
  • Ezra 7:26 : 26 And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.
  • Esth 5:4 : 4 And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
  • 2 Kgs 9:37 : 37 And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.
  • 2 Kgs 10:27 : 27 The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

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  • Ezra 6:12-15
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    12 And 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.

    13 Then 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.

    14 And 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.

    15 And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

  • Ezra 6:3-8
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    77%

    3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;

    4 With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

    5 And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God.

    6 So 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:

    7 Let 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.

    8 Further, 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.

  • Dan 6:6-9
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    77%

    6 Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.

    7 Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever.

    8 All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

    9 Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

  • Dan 3:29
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    29 And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.

  • Ezra 6:1
    74%

    1 Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.

  • Ezra 5:17
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    17 So 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.

  • Ezra 7:26-27
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    26 And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.

    27 Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

  • Ezra 7:23
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    23 Whatever is ordered by the God of heaven, let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven; so that there may not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

  • Ezra 7:20-21
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    20 And whatever more is needed for the house of your God, and which you may have to give, take it from the king's store-house.

    21 And 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,

  • Dan 6:15
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    15 When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.

  • Ezra 4:21-22
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    72%

    21 Give 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.

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

  • Ezra 5:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 This 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.

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

  • Dan 6:12
    72%

    12 Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God.

  • Ezra 5:12-13
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    72%

    12 But when the God of heaven was moved to wrath by our fathers, he gave them up into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the Chaldaean, who sent destruction on this house and took the people away into Babylon.

    13 But in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God;

  • Dan 6:26
    71%

    26 Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.

  • 2 Chr 36:23
    70%

    23 Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him and let him go up.

  • Ezra 5:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 But 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.

    6 This 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:

  • Esth 8:7
    70%

    7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

  • Esth 7:9
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    9 Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
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    19 And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

  • Jer 26:6
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    6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

  • Ezra 6:10
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    10 So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.

  • Ezra 5:3
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    3 At 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?

  • Ezra 1:2-3
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    69%

    2 These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

    3 Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

  • Dan 2:12
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    12 Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • Ezra 5:15
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    15 And he said to him, Go, take these vessels, and put them in the Temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be put up again in its place.

  • Amos 6:11
    69%

    11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • Ezra 4:15
    68%

    15 So 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.

  • Dan 5:5
    68%

    5 In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.