KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezra 4:21–23
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Ezra 4:21
21Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
21†Giue ye now commandement, to cause these men to cease, and that this citie be not builded, vntill another commandement shall be giuen from me.
- Chal. make a decree.
Ezra 4:22
22Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
22Take heed now that ye faile not to doe this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Ezra 4:23
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.
23¶ Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went vp in haste to Ierusalem, vnto the Iewes, and made them to cease, by †force and power.
- Chald. by arme and power.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezra 4:21
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
commandment
An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed, as identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Ezra 4:22
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply; or to be entirely wanting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Harm, injury, or loss; as a verb, to injure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To come forward; to advance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Ezra 4:23
A likeness, pattern, or written transcript.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A written message or epistle; also a character of writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A writer or clerk; among the Jews, one learned in and teaching the law.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
companions
Persons who accompany, associate, or share a condition, work, covenant, or fellowship with others; fellows, mates, or partners.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Speed or urgency in action; as a verb, to hurry or act quickly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Members of the Jewish people; Hebrews or Israelites identified as Jews.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Strength, power, compulsion, effect, or an armed body, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ability, strength, authority, dominion, or the right and capacity to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 22
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Open the full verse study8¶ 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.
9If 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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Open the full verse study3Then 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:
4For 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.
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Open the full verse study13Be 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.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study17¶ Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
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Open the full verse study8Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
9Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,
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Open the full verse study1WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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Open the full verse study16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
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Open the full verse study15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
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