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Ezra 4 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:1 - Now when the adversaries of Yehudah and Binyamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Yisra'el;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - then they drew near to Zerubbavel, and to the heads of fathers' houses, and said to them, Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we sacrifice to him since the days of Esar-Haddon king of Ashshur, who brought us up here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbavel, and Yeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, as king Koresh the king of Paras has commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Yehudah, and troubled them in building,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5 - and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Koresh king of Paras, even until the reign of Daryavesh king of Paras.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6 - In the reign of Achashverosh, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:7 - In the days of Artachshasta wrote Bishlam, Mitredat, Tav'el, and the rest of his companions, to Artachshasta king of Paras; and the writing of the letter was written in the Arammian character, and set forth in the Arammian language.

The Letter to King Artaxerxes

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:8 - Rechum the chancellor and Shimshai the Sofer wrote a letter against Yerushalayim to Artachshasta the king in this sort:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:9 - then wrote Rechum the chancellor, and Shimshai the Sofer, and the rest of their companions, the Dinites, and the Afarsatkhi, the Tarpelites, the Afarsi, the Arkevi, the Bavlites, the Shushankhites, the Dehites, the Elamites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:10 - and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the city of Shomron, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11 - This is the copy of the letter that they sent to Artachshasta the king: Your servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12 - Be it known to the king, that the Yehudim who came up from you are come to us to Yerushalayim; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14 - Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and informed the king;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so shall you find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, by this means you shall have no portion beyond the River.

The King Replies and Work Stops

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17 - Then sent the king an answer to Rechum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the Sofer, and to the rest of their companions who dwell in Shomron, and in the rest of the country beyond the River: Shalom, and so forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:18 - The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19 - I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - There have been mighty kings also over Yerushalayim, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:21 - Make you now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree shall be made by me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:22 - Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23 - Then when the copy of king Artachshasta' letter was read before Rechum, and Shimshai the Sofer, and their companions, they went in haste to Yerushalayim to the Yehudim, and made them to cease by force and power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24 - Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Yerushalayim; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Daryavesh king of Paras.
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