22Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?


In Context

19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.

20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree shall be made by me.

22 Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 4:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:22Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:22Be careful not to neglect this matter. Why let this threat grow, to the detriment of the royal interests?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:22See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:22And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:22and take heed that ye fail not to do this: why should harm grow to the damage of the kings?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:22And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:22Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:22And beware ye of negligence in doing this; why doth the hurt become great to the loss of the kings?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:22Take heed now that you fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?