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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?

Take heed {H1934}{H2095} now that ye fail {H7960} not to do {H5922}{H5648} this {H1836}: why {H4101} should damage {H2257} grow {H7680} to the hurt {H5142} of the kings {H4430}?

Take care not to neglect your duty; otherwise the harm may increase, to the damage of the king."

See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

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Cross-References

  • Ezra 4:13 (2 votes)

    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 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Esther 3:9 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Esther 7:3 (2 votes)

    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:

  • Esther 7:4 (2 votes)

    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.