Ezra 4:22
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Ezra 4:22 in other translations
| BSB | See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer? |
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| WEB | Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? |
| ASV | And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? |
| YLT | And beware ye of negligence in doing this; why doth the hurt become great to the loss of the kings?' |
| DARBY | and take heed that ye fail not to do this: why should harm grow to the damage of the kings? |
| BBE | Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage. |
| Webster | Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? |
What does Ezra 4:22 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezra 4:6-24
It is an old slander, that the prosperity of the church would be hurtful to kings and princes. Nothing can be more false, for true godliness teaches us to honour and obey our sovereign. But where the command of God requires one thing and the law of the land another, we must obey God rather than man, and patiently submit to the consequences. All who love the gospel should avoid all appearance of evil, lest they…
Ezra 4:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezra 4:22
- Esther 7:3-4
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
- Ezra 4:13
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
- Esther 3:8-9
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
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Context
- Ezra 4:21
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
- Ezra 4:22
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
- Ezra 4:23
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Ezra 4:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y mirad bien que no hagáis error en esto: ¿por qué habrá de crecer el daño para perjuicio de los reyes? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Gardez-vous de manquer à faire cela: pourquoi le dommage augmenterait-il au préjudice des rois? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und hütet euch, hierin einen Fehler zu begehen; warum sollte der Schaden wachsen, um den Königen Nachteil zu bringen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Videte ne negligenter hoc impleatis, et paulatim crescat malum contra reges. |