◄ Ezra 4:21 ►
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Good News Translation
Therefore you are to issue orders that those men are to stop rebuilding the city until I give further commands.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore issue an order that these people be made to cease, and that this city not be rebuilt, until I make a decree.

Contemporary English Version
I want you to command the people to stop rebuilding the city until I give further notice.

New American Bible
Give orders, therefore, to stop these men. This city may not be rebuilt until a further decree has been issued by me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city be not built, till further orders be given by me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city be not built, till further orders be given by me.

Give ye, etc.

Ezra 4:19 And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that this city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and wars have been raised therein.

Context
The Decree of Artaxerxes
…20For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues. 21Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city be not built, till further orders be given by me.22See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.…
Cross References
Ezra 4:20
For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues.

Ezra 4:22
See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

Ezra 4:20
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