Ezra 4:12Wycliffe's Bible with Modern SpellingBe it known to the king, that the Jews, which went up from thee, be come to us in Jerusalem, a rebel and full evil city, which they build, and they make the ground walls thereof, and they array the walls above. See the chapter |
that thou account and seek in the books of [the] stories of thy fathers, and thou shalt find written in chronicles, and thou shalt know, that that city Jerusalem is a rebel city, and that it annoyeth kings and provinces, and that battles be raised therein of eld [or old] days; wherefore also that city was destroyed.
And then Haman said to king Ahasuerus, A people is scattered by all the provinces of thy realm, and it is separated from itself, and this people useth new laws and ceremonies, and furthermore also it despiseth the behests of the king; and thou knowest best, that it speedeth not to thy realm, that it increase in malice by license.
We have found this wicked man stirring dissension, to all Jews in all the world, and author of dissension of the sect of Nazarenes; [We have found this man bearing venom, or pestilence, and stirring sedition, or dissention, to all the Jews in all the world, and author of sedition of the sect of Nazarenes;]