Ezra 4:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 1 Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city be not built, till further orders be given by me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ We declare to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, it will mean that you will have no portion on this side of the [Euphrates] River.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ We certify the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the River.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ We tell the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls completed, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ We report to the king that if this city will have been built, and its walls repaired, you will have no possession across the river."

Ezra 4:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:3

And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of Adarezer, king David took an exceeding great quantity of brass.

1 Kings 4:24

9 And God gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart as the sand that is on the sea shore.

Ezra 4:15

0 For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who hare had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues.

Ezra 4:17

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

Ezra 4:20

Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel.