Ezra 4:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel, and the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the Persians : and the letter of accusation was written in Syriac, and was read in the Syrian tongue.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² They came to Zerubbabel [now governor] and to the heads of the fathers' houses and said, Let us build with you, for we seek and worship your God as you do, and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here. [II Kings 17:24-29.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ houses, and said unto them, Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as ye do; and we sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.

Common English Bible

² they came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the families and said to them, “Let’s build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we’ve been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Assyria’s King Esarhaddon, who brought us here.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And so, drawing near to Zerubbabel and to the leaders of the fathers, they said to them: "Let us build with you, for we seek your God just as you do. Behold, we have immolated victims to him from the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who brought us here."

Ezra 4:2 Cross References

Genesis 10:11

1 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

2 Kings 17:24

9 And every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt.

2 Kings 17:41

He trusted in the Lord the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him:

2 Kings 19:37

Go back, and tell Ezechias the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee; on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.

Ezra 1:5

0 Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels a thousand.

Ezra 2:2

The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Ezra 3:12

Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them in building.

Ezra 3:2

And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.

Nehemiah 9:32

7 And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.

Psalm 73:8

5 If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

Isaiah 37:37

And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:

Isaiah 37:38

Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.

Hosea 14:3

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Galatians 2:4

3 And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented, so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

2 Timothy 3:8

7 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.