Ezra 4:22
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Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
In other translations
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
Hebrew words
וּזְהִירִיןuzehirinand cautiousH2095הֱווֹhevobeH1934שָׁלוּshalunegligenceH7960לְמֶעְבַּדleme'badto doH5648עַל־'al-concerningH5922דְּנָהdenahthisH1836לְמָהlemah<to> why?H4101יִשְׂגֵּאyisge'will it grow greatH7680חֲבָלָאchavala'damage theH2257לְהַנְזָקַתlehanzakatto injuryH5142מַלְכִין׃ סmalkhinkingsH4430
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- Esther 3:8-98 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. 9 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.8 Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them. 9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
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- Esther 7:3-43 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: 4 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.3 Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request. 4 For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
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