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

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build.

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

New King James Version
Then the people of the land tried to discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in building,

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

NASB 1995
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building,

NASB 1977
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building,

Legacy Standard Bible
So the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and dismayed them from building,

Amplified Bible
Then [the Samaritans and others of] the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them [to deter them] from building,

Christian Standard Bible
Then the people who were already in the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the people who were already in the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Gentiles of the land were weakening the hands of the people of Yehuda and wore them down that they would not build.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Juda, and hindered them in building,

Contemporary English Version
Then the neighboring people began to do everything possible to frighten the Jews and to make them stop building.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, 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,

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

Good News Translation
Then the people who had been living in the land tried to discourage and frighten the Jews and keep them from building.

International Standard Version
After this, the non-Israeli inhabitants of the land undermined the people of Judah, harassing them in their construction work

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and harried them while they were building,

Literal Standard Version
And it comes to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,

Majority Standard Bible
Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build.

New American Bible
Thereupon the local inhabitants discouraged the people of Judah and frightened them off from building.

NET Bible
Then the local people began to discourage the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,

New Heart English Bible
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,

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Context
Adversaries Hinder the Work
3But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.” 4Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build. 5They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 4:1
Now when Ish-bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel was dismayed.

Ezra 3:3
They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD--both the morning and evening burnt offerings--even though they feared the people of the land.

Ezra 4:5
They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.


Treasury of Scripture

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

weakened

Ezra 3:3
And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Nehemiah 6:9
For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

Isaiah 35:3,4
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…

troubled

Nehemiah 4:7,8,11
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, …

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Ezra 4
1. The adversaries, being not accepted in the building of the temple with the Jews,
4. endeavor to hinder it
7. Their letter to Artaxerxes
17. The answer and decree of Artaxerxes
23. The building is hindered














Verse 4. - Then the people of the land (i.e. the Samaritans) weakened the hands of the people of Judah. As aiding is called "strengthening the hands (infra, Ezra 6:22; Isaiah 35:3; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezekiel 16:49, etc.), so hindering is expressed by "weakening the hands" (Jeremiah 38:4), though this latter phrase is, comparatively speaking, unusual. And troubled them in building. Probably as Sanballat and his followers troubled the builders of the wall in Nehemiah's time (Nehemiah 4:1-12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then
וַיְהִי֙ (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

the people
עַם־ (‘am-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

of the land
הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

set out to discourage
מְרַפִּ֖ים (mə·rap·pîm)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7503: Sink, relax

the people
עַם־ (‘am-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

of Judah
יְהוּדָ֑ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

and make them afraid
וּֽמְבַהֲלִ֥ים (ū·mə·ḇa·hă·lîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 1086: To fail, to wear out, decay

to build.
לִבְנֽוֹת׃ (liḇ·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1129: To build


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