Ezra 4:22 - English Standard Version 2016

²² And take care not to be slack in this matter. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?”

Matoleo zaidi

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 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Ezra 4:13

Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

Ezra 4:21

Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.

Ezra 4:23

Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.

Daniel 6:3

Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.