Ezra 4:2-4
Legacy Standard Bible
2 so they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; (A)and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of (B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.” 3 But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “(C)You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, (D)as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”
4 So (E)the people of the land [a]discouraged the people of Judah and dismayed them from building,
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- Ezra 4:4 Lit made the hands limp
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