Nehemiah 6:9 All of them were wanting to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.” So now, strengthen my hands!

6:9 NET

Parallel Verses

New English Translation - All of them were wanting to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.” So now, strengthen my hands!
新标点和合本 - 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说，他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。　神啊，求你坚固我的手。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 他们全都要使我们惧怕，说：“他们的手必软弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。”现在，求你坚固我的手。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 他们全都要使我们惧怕，说：“他们的手必软弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。”现在，求你坚固我的手。
当代译本 - 因为他们想恐吓我们，以为我们会吓得手发软，无法完成工程。但上帝啊，求你使我的手有力量！
圣经新译本 - 其实他们众人是在恐吓我们，心里说：“他们的手必软弱，不能再作这工程，不会完工了！”现在，坚固我的手。
中文标准译本 - 其实他们都在恐吓我们，他们心想：“这些人的手必发软而停下这工程，以致不能成就。” 神哪，求你使我的手坚强！
现代标点和合本 - 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说：“他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。”神啊，求你坚固我的手！
和合本（拼音版） - 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说，他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。上帝啊，求你坚固我的手。
New International Version - They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.” But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
New International Reader's Version - All of them were trying to frighten us. They thought, “Their hands will get too weak to do the work. So it won’t be completed.” But I prayed to God. I said, “Make my hands stronger.”
English Standard Version - For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
New Living Translation - They were just trying to intimidate us, imagining that they could discourage us and stop the work. So I continued the work with even greater determination.
The Message - They were trying to intimidate us into quitting. They thought, “They’ll give up; they’ll never finish it.” I prayed, “Give me strength.” * * *
Christian Standard Bible - For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will drop their hands from the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
New American Standard Bible - For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, “ They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, God, strengthen my hands.
New King James Version - For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
Amplified Bible - For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, [O God,] strengthen my hands.
American Standard Version - For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.
King James Version - For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
World English Bible - For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
新標點和合本 - 他們都要使我們懼怕，意思說，他們的手必軟弱，以致工作不能成就。神啊，求你堅固我的手。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 他們全都要使我們懼怕，說：「他們的手必軟弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。」現在，求你堅固我的手。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 他們全都要使我們懼怕，說：「他們的手必軟弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。」現在，求你堅固我的手。
當代譯本 - 因為他們想恐嚇我們，以為我們會嚇得手發軟，無法完成工程。但上帝啊，求你使我的手有力量！
聖經新譯本 - 其實他們眾人是在恐嚇我們，心裡說：“他們的手必軟弱，不能再作這工程，不會完工了！”現在，堅固我的手。
呂振中譯本 - 他們都要使我懼怕，意思是說：『他們的手會從這工作上發軟下來，以致工程作不了。』但現在呢、加強我的手吧。
中文標準譯本 - 其實他們都在恐嚇我們，他們心想：「這些人的手必發軟而停下這工程，以致不能成就。」神哪，求你使我的手堅強！
現代標點和合本 - 他們都要使我們懼怕，意思說：「他們的手必軟弱，以致工作不能成就。」神啊，求你堅固我的手！
文理和合譯本 - 蓋彼眾欲恐我、意謂我手必弱、以致工作不得成功、然我乃強厥手、○
文理委辦譯本 - 彼言此、欲以懼我、使我心危、工作廢弛、然我志益銳。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼眾皆欲使我懼、意謂、我必心灰、止息工作、致不得成、主歟、惟求鼓勵我、鼓勵我原文作堅我手 ○
Nueva Versión Internacional - En realidad, lo que pretendían era asustarnos. Pensaban desanimarnos, para que no termináramos la obra. «Y ahora, Señor, ¡fortalece mis manos!»
현대인의 성경 - 그들은 나를 위협하며 우리가 지쳐서 더 이상 공사를 진행하지 못할 것이라고 생각했으나 나는 “하나님이시여, 나를 강하게 하소서” 하고 기도하였다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки.
Восточный перевод - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки!
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки!
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки!
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tous ces gens, en effet, ne cherchaient qu’à nous faire peur ; ils espéraient que nous nous découragerions et que nous abandonnerions l’ouvrage ! Maintenant, ô Dieu, fortifie-moi pour ma tâche !
リビングバイブル - 君たちは私たちを脅迫して、ただ工事を中止させたいだけなのだ。」ああ、神様。どうか、私に力をお与えください。
Nova Versão Internacional - Estavam todos tentando intimidar-nos, pensando: “Eles serão enfraquecidos e não concluirão a obra”. Eu, porém, orei pedindo: Fortalece agora as minhas mãos!
Hoffnung für alle - Unsere Feinde wollten uns Angst einjagen, um die Fertigstellung der Mauer zu verhindern. Doch ich betete: »Herr, gib mir Mut und Kraft!«
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Cross Reference

Psalms 68:35 - You are awe-inspiring, O God, as you emerge from your holy temple! It is the God of Israel who gives the people power and strength. God deserves praise!
Psalms 56:3 - When I am afraid, I trust in you.
Isaiah 35:3 - Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!
Isaiah 35:4 - Tell those who panic, “Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your God comes to avenge! With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.”
Zechariah 10:12 - Thus I will strengthen them by my power, and they will walk about in my name,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 38:4 - So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”
Nehemiah 4:10 - Then those in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall.”
Nehemiah 4:11 - Our adversaries also boasted, “Before they are aware or anticipate anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”
Nehemiah 4:12 - So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.
Nehemiah 4:13 - So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.
Nehemiah 4:14 - When I had made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!”
1 Samuel 30:6 - David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.
Nehemiah 6:14 - Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs – also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who were trying to scare me!
Hebrews 12:12 - Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,
Isaiah 41:10 - Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you – yes, I help you – yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
2 Chronicles 32:18 - They called out loudly in the Judahite dialect to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, trying to scare and terrify them so they could seize the city.
Psalms 71:1 - In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!
2 Chronicles 15:7 - But as for you, be strong and don’t get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”
Ephesians 3:16 - I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
Ephesians 6:10 - Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.
Philippians 4:13 - I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.
Ezra 4:1 - When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin learned that the former exiles were building a temple for the Lord God of Israel,
Ezra 4:2 - they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders and said to them, “Let us help you build, for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him from the time of King Esarhaddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Ezra 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”
Ezra 4:4 - Then the local people began to discourage the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.
Ezra 4:5 - They were hiring advisers to oppose them, so as to frustrate their plans, throughout the time of King Cyrus of Persia until the reign of King Darius of Persia.
Ezra 4:6 - At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus they filed an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 4:7 - And during the reign of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to King Artaxerxes of Persia. This letter was first written in Aramaic but then translated. [Aramaic:]
Ezra 4:8 - Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter concerning Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
Ezra 4:9 - From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues – the judges, the rulers, the officials, the secretaries, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, the Elamites),
Ezra 4:10 - and the rest of nations whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and other places in Trans-Euphrates.
Ezra 4:11 - (This is a copy of the letter they sent to him:) “To King Artaxerxes, from your servants in Trans-Euphrates:
Ezra 4:12 - Now let the king be aware that the Jews who came up to us from you have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and odious city. They are completing its walls and repairing its foundations.
Ezra 4:13 - Let the king also be aware that if this city is built and its walls are completed, no more tax, custom, or toll will be paid, and the royal treasury will suffer loss.
Ezra 4:14 - In light of the fact that we are loyal to the king, and since it does not seem appropriate to us that the king should sustain damage, we are sending the king this information
Ezra 4:15 - so that he may initiate a search of the records of his predecessors and discover in those records that this city is rebellious and injurious to both kings and provinces, producing internal revolts from long ago. It is for this very reason that this city was destroyed.
Ezra 4:16 - We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control of this portion of Trans-Euphrates.”
Ezra 4:17 - The king sent the following response: “To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and other parts of Trans-Euphrates: Greetings!
Ezra 4:18 - The letter you sent to us has been translated and read in my presence.
Ezra 4:19 - So I gave orders, and it was determined that this city from long ago has been engaging in insurrection against kings. It has continually engaged in rebellion and revolt.
Ezra 4:20 - Powerful kings have been over Jerusalem who ruled throughout the entire Trans-Euphrates and who were the beneficiaries of tribute, custom, and toll.
Ezra 4:21 - Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct.
Ezra 4:22 - Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?”
Ezra 4:23 - Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem and stopped them with threat of armed force.
Ezra 4:24 - So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.
2 Corinthians 12:9 - But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.
1 Peter 5:10 - And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Psalms 138:3 - When I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me.

Parallel Verses

Cross Reference

New English Translation - All of them were wanting to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.” So now, strengthen my hands!
新标点和合本 - 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说，他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。　神啊，求你坚固我的手。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 他们全都要使我们惧怕，说：“他们的手必软弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。”现在，求你坚固我的手。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 他们全都要使我们惧怕，说：“他们的手必软弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。”现在，求你坚固我的手。
当代译本 - 因为他们想恐吓我们，以为我们会吓得手发软，无法完成工程。但上帝啊，求你使我的手有力量！
圣经新译本 - 其实他们众人是在恐吓我们，心里说：“他们的手必软弱，不能再作这工程，不会完工了！”现在，坚固我的手。
中文标准译本 - 其实他们都在恐吓我们，他们心想：“这些人的手必发软而停下这工程，以致不能成就。” 神哪，求你使我的手坚强！
现代标点和合本 - 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说：“他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。”神啊，求你坚固我的手！
和合本（拼音版） - 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说，他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。上帝啊，求你坚固我的手。
New International Version - They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.” But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
New International Reader's Version - All of them were trying to frighten us. They thought, “Their hands will get too weak to do the work. So it won’t be completed.” But I prayed to God. I said, “Make my hands stronger.”
English Standard Version - For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
New Living Translation - They were just trying to intimidate us, imagining that they could discourage us and stop the work. So I continued the work with even greater determination.
The Message - They were trying to intimidate us into quitting. They thought, “They’ll give up; they’ll never finish it.” I prayed, “Give me strength.” * * *
Christian Standard Bible - For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will drop their hands from the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
New American Standard Bible - For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, “ They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, God, strengthen my hands.
New King James Version - For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
Amplified Bible - For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, [O God,] strengthen my hands.
American Standard Version - For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.
King James Version - For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
World English Bible - For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
新標點和合本 - 他們都要使我們懼怕，意思說，他們的手必軟弱，以致工作不能成就。神啊，求你堅固我的手。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 他們全都要使我們懼怕，說：「他們的手必軟弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。」現在，求你堅固我的手。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 他們全都要使我們懼怕，說：「他們的手必軟弱，不能工作，以致不能完工。」現在，求你堅固我的手。
當代譯本 - 因為他們想恐嚇我們，以為我們會嚇得手發軟，無法完成工程。但上帝啊，求你使我的手有力量！
聖經新譯本 - 其實他們眾人是在恐嚇我們，心裡說：“他們的手必軟弱，不能再作這工程，不會完工了！”現在，堅固我的手。
呂振中譯本 - 他們都要使我懼怕，意思是說：『他們的手會從這工作上發軟下來，以致工程作不了。』但現在呢、加強我的手吧。
中文標準譯本 - 其實他們都在恐嚇我們，他們心想：「這些人的手必發軟而停下這工程，以致不能成就。」神哪，求你使我的手堅強！
現代標點和合本 - 他們都要使我們懼怕，意思說：「他們的手必軟弱，以致工作不能成就。」神啊，求你堅固我的手！
文理和合譯本 - 蓋彼眾欲恐我、意謂我手必弱、以致工作不得成功、然我乃強厥手、○
文理委辦譯本 - 彼言此、欲以懼我、使我心危、工作廢弛、然我志益銳。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼眾皆欲使我懼、意謂、我必心灰、止息工作、致不得成、主歟、惟求鼓勵我、鼓勵我原文作堅我手 ○
Nueva Versión Internacional - En realidad, lo que pretendían era asustarnos. Pensaban desanimarnos, para que no termináramos la obra. «Y ahora, Señor, ¡fortalece mis manos!»
현대인의 성경 - 그들은 나를 위협하며 우리가 지쳐서 더 이상 공사를 진행하지 못할 것이라고 생각했으나 나는 “하나님이시여, 나를 강하게 하소서” 하고 기도하였다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки.
Восточный перевод - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки!
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки!
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Все они старались запугать нас, думая: «Их руки очень ослабнут, чтобы делать эту работу, и она не будет завершена». Но я молился: – Укрепи мои руки!
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tous ces gens, en effet, ne cherchaient qu’à nous faire peur ; ils espéraient que nous nous découragerions et que nous abandonnerions l’ouvrage ! Maintenant, ô Dieu, fortifie-moi pour ma tâche !
リビングバイブル - 君たちは私たちを脅迫して、ただ工事を中止させたいだけなのだ。」ああ、神様。どうか、私に力をお与えください。
Nova Versão Internacional - Estavam todos tentando intimidar-nos, pensando: “Eles serão enfraquecidos e não concluirão a obra”. Eu, porém, orei pedindo: Fortalece agora as minhas mãos!
Hoffnung für alle - Unsere Feinde wollten uns Angst einjagen, um die Fertigstellung der Mauer zu verhindern. Doch ich betete: »Herr, gib mir Mut und Kraft!«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Họ tưởng có thể dọa chúng tôi sợ để chúng tôi bỏ việc đang làm. Vậy xin Đức Chúa Trời làm cho con vững chí!
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พวกเขาพยายามข่มขวัญเราและคิดว่า “มือของพวกเขาจะได้อ่อนแรงเกินกว่าที่จะทำงาน งานจะได้ไม่สำเร็จ” แต่ข้าพเจ้าอธิษฐานว่า “บัดนี้ขอทรงประทานกำลังแก่มือของข้าพระองค์ด้วยเถิด”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ด้วยว่าพวกเขาทุกคนต้องการทำให้เราตกใจ และเขาคิดว่า “พวกเขาจะได้วางมือจากงาน และงานก็จะไม่สำเร็จ” แต่บัดนี้ โอ พระเจ้า ขอพระองค์เสริมกำลังแก่ข้าพเจ้าเถิด

Psalms 68:35 - You are awe-inspiring, O God, as you emerge from your holy temple! It is the God of Israel who gives the people power and strength. God deserves praise!
Psalms 56:3 - When I am afraid, I trust in you.
Isaiah 35:3 - Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!
Isaiah 35:4 - Tell those who panic, “Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your God comes to avenge! With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.”
Zechariah 10:12 - Thus I will strengthen them by my power, and they will walk about in my name,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 38:4 - So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”
Nehemiah 4:10 - Then those in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall.”
Nehemiah 4:11 - Our adversaries also boasted, “Before they are aware or anticipate anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”
Nehemiah 4:12 - So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.
Nehemiah 4:13 - So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.
Nehemiah 4:14 - When I had made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!”
1 Samuel 30:6 - David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.
Nehemiah 6:14 - Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs – also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who were trying to scare me!
Hebrews 12:12 - Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,
Isaiah 41:10 - Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you – yes, I help you – yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
2 Chronicles 32:18 - They called out loudly in the Judahite dialect to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, trying to scare and terrify them so they could seize the city.
Psalms 71:1 - In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!
2 Chronicles 15:7 - But as for you, be strong and don’t get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”
Ephesians 3:16 - I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
Ephesians 6:10 - Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.
Philippians 4:13 - I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.
Ezra 4:1 - When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin learned that the former exiles were building a temple for the Lord God of Israel,
Ezra 4:2 - they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders and said to them, “Let us help you build, for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him from the time of King Esarhaddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Ezra 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”
Ezra 4:4 - Then the local people began to discourage the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.
Ezra 4:5 - They were hiring advisers to oppose them, so as to frustrate their plans, throughout the time of King Cyrus of Persia until the reign of King Darius of Persia.
Ezra 4:6 - At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus they filed an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 4:7 - And during the reign of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to King Artaxerxes of Persia. This letter was first written in Aramaic but then translated. [Aramaic:]
Ezra 4:8 - Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter concerning Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
Ezra 4:9 - From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues – the judges, the rulers, the officials, the secretaries, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, the Elamites),
Ezra 4:10 - and the rest of nations whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and other places in Trans-Euphrates.
Ezra 4:11 - (This is a copy of the letter they sent to him:) “To King Artaxerxes, from your servants in Trans-Euphrates:
Ezra 4:12 - Now let the king be aware that the Jews who came up to us from you have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and odious city. They are completing its walls and repairing its foundations.
Ezra 4:13 - Let the king also be aware that if this city is built and its walls are completed, no more tax, custom, or toll will be paid, and the royal treasury will suffer loss.
Ezra 4:14 - In light of the fact that we are loyal to the king, and since it does not seem appropriate to us that the king should sustain damage, we are sending the king this information
Ezra 4:15 - so that he may initiate a search of the records of his predecessors and discover in those records that this city is rebellious and injurious to both kings and provinces, producing internal revolts from long ago. It is for this very reason that this city was destroyed.
Ezra 4:16 - We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control of this portion of Trans-Euphrates.”
Ezra 4:17 - The king sent the following response: “To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and other parts of Trans-Euphrates: Greetings!
Ezra 4:18 - The letter you sent to us has been translated and read in my presence.
Ezra 4:19 - So I gave orders, and it was determined that this city from long ago has been engaging in insurrection against kings. It has continually engaged in rebellion and revolt.
Ezra 4:20 - Powerful kings have been over Jerusalem who ruled throughout the entire Trans-Euphrates and who were the beneficiaries of tribute, custom, and toll.
Ezra 4:21 - Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct.
Ezra 4:22 - Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?”
Ezra 4:23 - Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem and stopped them with threat of armed force.
Ezra 4:24 - So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.
2 Corinthians 12:9 - But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.
1 Peter 5:10 - And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Psalms 138:3 - When I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me.