KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezra 6:10–11
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Ezra 6:10
10That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
10That they may offer sacrifices †of sweet sauours vnto the God of heauen, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sonnes.
- Chalde, of rest.
Ezra 6:11
11Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
11Also I haue made a decree, that whosoeuer shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set vp, let him bee †hanged thereon, and let his house bee made a doung hill for this.
- Chalde, let him be destroyed.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezra 6:10
To present, bring, give, propose, or attempt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
sacrifices
Offerings presented to God; also acts of presenting such offerings or things devoted to God.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Pleasing to the smell; fragrant. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The expanse above the earth, including the sky or firmament; also the dwelling or throne of God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezra 6:11
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An authoritative order, determination, or appointed rule; also to order or establish authoritatively.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Whoever; any person who, without restriction in the stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To make some change in; to make different in some particular; to vary in some degree, without an entire change.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Drawn towards one; plucked.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Suspended; put to death by being suspended by the neck.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A heap of dung; Sprung from the dunghill; mean; low; base; vile; Any mean situation or condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study1I EXHORT therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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Open the full verse study23Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
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Open the full verse study7And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
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Open the full verse study2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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Open the full verse study21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
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Open the full verse study13But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study29Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
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Open the full verse study26And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
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Open the full verse study5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
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Open the full verse study27And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
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Open the full verse study37And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
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Open the full verse study4And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
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Open the full verse study10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
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