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Ezra 4:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built until a decree is made by me. "

Ezra 4:21

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19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.

20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll was paid to them.

21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built until a decree is made by me.

22 Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

23 Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

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Ezra 6:8

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"Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered."

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Ezra 6:12

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"May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence."

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Daniel 6:8

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"Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”"

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2 Samuel 12:28

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"Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”"

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Isaiah 28:22

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"Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD of Armies, on the whole earth."

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"For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built."

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Ezra 4:1

"Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,"

Ezra 4:2

"they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”"

Ezra 4:3

"But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”"

Ezra 4:4

"Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building."

Ezra 4:5

"They hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia."

Ezra 4:6

"In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem."

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