Ezra 4:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Be sure that you do this. Why should damage grow, to the hurt of the kings?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²² Be sure to carry out this order! Why should danger grow and threaten the king?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² See to it that you are not negligent in fulfilling this, otherwise, little by little, the evil may increase against the kings."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Ezra 4:22 Cross References

Ezra 4:13

Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will endamage the kings.

Ezra 4:21

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

Ezra 4:23

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 unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.

Daniel 6:3

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.