Ezra 4:4

Christian Standard Bible ®

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Yehudah, and troubled them in building,

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

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

New Century Version
Then the people around them tried to discourage the people of Judah by making them afraid to build.

New English Translation
Then the local people began to discourage the people of Judah and to dishearten 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,

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

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore the people of the land discouraged the people of Iudah, and troubled them in buylding,

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

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Then the people of the land began discouraging the people of Y'hudah, in order to make them afraid to build.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
So the enemies began to discourage them and tried to frighten them in order to stop them from building the Temple.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the Gentiles of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and terrified them that they should not build,

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.

Lexham English Bible
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build

Literal Translation
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah and terrified them in building.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then the folke of the londe hyndered the people of Iuda, and made them afrayed to buylde,

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;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it came to passe, that the folke of the lande discouraged the people of Iuda, & troubled them as they were building:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and harried them while they were building,

King James Version (1611)
Then the people of the land weakened the handes of the people of Iudah, and troubled them in building,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Juda, and hindered 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,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe it was doon, that the puple of the lond lettide the hondis of the puple of Juda, and trobliden hem in bildyng.

Update Bible 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,

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

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

New Life Bible
Then the people of the land made the hearts of the people of Judah weak, and made them afraid to go on building.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came it to pass, that, the people of the land, were weakening the hands of the people of Judah, - and troubling them in building;

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

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

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,

THE MESSAGE
So these people started beating down the morale of the people of Judah, harassing them as they built. They even hired propagandists to sap their resolve. They kept this up for about fifteen years, throughout the lifetime of Cyrus king of Persia and on into the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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

Contextual Overview

¹When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel, ²they approached Zerubbabel and the family heads and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria brought us here.” ³But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of Israel’s families answered them, “You may have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.” ⁴Then the people who were already in the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build. ⁵They also bribed officials to act against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

weakened: Ezra 3:3, Nehemiah 6:9, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Jeremiah 38:4

troubled: Nehemiah 4:7, Nehemiah 4:8, Nehemiah 4:11

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 4:1 - his hands Nehemiah 2:10 - there was come Daniel 10:13 - the prince Zechariah 1:19 - scattered

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:17
Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

Genesis 4:19
Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen.

Genesis 15:17
When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals.

Exodus 13:12
you are to present to the Lord every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the Lord’s.

Leviticus 9:24
Fire came from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell facedown.

Numbers 16:35
Fire also came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.

Numbers 18:12
I am giving you all the best of the fresh oil, new wine, and grain, which the Israelites give to the Lord as their firstfruits.

Numbers 18:17
“However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building. By threatening them, or by dissuading the workmen from going on, by endeavouring to hinder their having materials from the Tyrians and Zidonians, or money out of the king's revenues to bear the expenses as ordered; see Ezra 6:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 4:4. Weakened the hands — Discouraged and opposed them by every possible means.