Ezra 4:4
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New International Version (©1984)
Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the local residents tried to discourage and frighten the people of Judah to keep them from their work.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the people of that region discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to continue building.

King James Bible
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

American King James Version
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

American Standard Version
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Bible in Basic English
Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them in building.

Darby Bible Translation
And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building;

English Revised Version
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

World English Bible
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,

Geneva Study Bible

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4, 5. Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, &c.-Exasperated by this repulse, the Samaritans endeavored by every means to molest the workmen as well as obstruct the progress of the building; and, though they could not alter the decree which Cyrus had issued regarding it, yet by bribes and clandestine arts indefatigably plied at court, they labored to frustrate the effects of the edict. Their success in those underhand dealings was great; for Cyrus, being frequently absent and much absorbed in his warlike expeditions, left the government in the hands of his son Cambyses, a wicked prince, and extremely hostile to the Jews and their religion. The same arts were assiduously practised during the reign of his successor, Smerdis, down to the time of Darius Hystaspes. In consequence of the difficulties and obstacles thus interposed, for a period of twenty years, the progress of the work was very slow.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-5 Every attempt to revive true religion will stir up the opposition of Satan, and of those in whom he works. The adversaries were the Samaritans, who had been planted in the land of Israel, 2Ki 17. It was plain that they did not mean to unite in the worship of the Lord, according to his word. Let those who discourage a good work, and weaken them that are employed in it, see whose pattern they follow.


Ezra 3:3 So they set up the altar on its foundation, for they were terrified because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening. (NASB ©1995)

Afraid Build Building Discourage Discouraged Fear Feeble Frightened Hands Judah Making Peoples Troubled Troubling Weakened

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

weakened 3:3 Ne 6:9 Isa 35:3,4 Jer 38:4

troubled Ne 4:7,8,11

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