EZRA 4:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Those local people had been discouraging the people of Yehudah and trying to stop them from building.

4:4 OSHB variant note: ו/מבלהים: (x-qere) ’וּֽ/מְבַהֲלִ֥ים’: lemma_c/926 morph_HC/Vprmpa id_15Atm וּֽ/מְבַהֲלִ֥ים

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ ἦν ὁ λαὸς τῆς γῆς ἐκλύων τὰς χεῖρας τοῦ λαοῦ Ἰούδα, καὶ ἐνεπόδιζον αὐτοὺς οἰκοδομεῖν,
(Kai aʸn ho laos taʸs gaʸs ekluōn tas ⱪeiras tou laou Youda, kai enepodizon autous oikodomein, )

BrTr And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Juda, and hindered them in building,

ULT And it happened that the people of the land were making the hands of the people of Judah weak, and making them afraid to build,

UST Then the people who had been living in that land before the Israelites returned there started doing things to make the Jews discouraged and afraid to continue building the temple.

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

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB No OEB EZRA book available

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

WMBB (Same as above)

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

LSV 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,

FBV Then the local people set out to intimidate the people of Judah and make them too scared to go on building.

T4T Then the people who had been living in that land before the Israelis returned tried to cause the Jews to become discouraged and become afraid, and to cause them to stop building the temple.

LEB Then the people of the land discouraged _⌊the people of Judah_⌋[fn] and made them afraid to build

4:4 Literally “the hands of the people of Judah”

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

Moff Whereupon the people of the land thwarted the people of Judah and were a trouble to them as they were building;

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

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

DRA Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them in building.

YLT 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,

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

RV Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
(Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Yudah, and troubled them in building, )

SLT And the people of the land will be slackening the hands of the people of Judah, and terrifying them in building,

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

KJB-1769 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
(Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Yudah, and troubled them in building, )

KJB-1611 Then the people of the land weakened the handes of the people of Iudah, and troubled them in building,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And it came to passe, that the folke of the lande discouraged the people of Iuda, & troubled them as they were building:
(And it came to pass, that the folk/people of the land discouraged the people of Yuda, and troubled them as they were building:)

Gnva Wherefore the people of the land discouraged the people of Iudah, and troubled them in buylding,
(Wherefore the people of the land discouraged the people of Yudah, and troubled them in building, )

Cvdl Then the folke of the londe hyndered the people of Iuda, and made them afrayed to buylde,
(Then the folk/people of the land hindered the people of Yuda, and made them afraid to build,)

Wycl Forsothe it was doon, that the puple of the lond lettide the hondis of the puple of Juda, and trobliden hem in bildyng.
(For_certain/Truly it was done, that the people of the land lettide the hands of the people of Yuda, and troubleden hem in building.)

Luth Da hinderte das Volk im Lande die Hand des Volks Juda und schreckten sie ab im Bauen.
(So hinderte the people in_the land the hand the peoples Yuda and schreckten they/she/them ab in_the building(n).)

ClVg Factum est igitur ut populus terræ impediret manus populi Judæ, et turbaret eos in ædificando.[fn]
(Done it_is therefore as the_people of_the_earth/land impediret hands of_the_people Yudah, and turbaret them in/into/on buildndo. )

4.4 Populi Judæ. Populum Juda, id est confidentem et glorificantem, dicit eum qui integramente Domino ædificare, id est ad voluntatem ejus faciendam et gloriam quærendam omnium quos potest animos et ora convertere quærit.

4.4 Peoples Yudah. Populum Yuda, that it_is confidentem and glorificantem, he_says him who/which integramente Master to_build, that it_is to will his to_be_donem and glory whichrendam of_all which can in_minds and pray convertere seeks.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-newevent

וַ⁠יְהִי֙

and=he/it_was

The phrase and it happened that introduces a new series of events in the story. Use a natural way in your language for introducing something new or different.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

עַם־הָ⁠אָ֔רֶץ

people the=earth/land

This expression refers to the non-Israelite people groups, listed in [4:9](../04/09.md), whom the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal had brought to live in the area just north of Judah in the century before the Jews were taken away into exile themselves. When the Jews returned to their homeland, those foreign groups were still living nearby. Alternate translation: [the foreign people groups living nearby]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

וַ⁠יְהִי֙ & מְרַפִּ֖ים יְדֵ֣י עַם־יְהוּדָ֑ה וּֽמְבַהֲלִ֥ים אוֹתָ֖⁠ם לִ⁠בְנֽוֹת

and=he/it_was & ones_discouraging hands_of people Yehuda (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was people the=earth/land ones_discouraging hands_of people Yehuda and,[they_were]_terrifying ,them to,build )

These two phrases mean similar things. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine them. Alternate translation: [making the people of Judah so intimidated that they stopped working on the temple] However, there is a slight distinction between the phrases. The first one describes how the people felt inwardly, and the second one explains what effect this had on their outward actions. So you could also translate the phrases separately. Alternate translation: [were intimidating the people of Judah so that they were afraid to keep working on the temple]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וַ⁠יְהִי֙ & מְרַפִּ֖ים יְדֵ֣י עַם־יְהוּדָ֑ה

and=he/it_was & ones_discouraging hands_of people Yehuda

Here, hands represents power and action, so making the hands weak means to make someone so discouraged or intimidated that they do not use their power to act. Alternate translation: [were intimidating the people of Judah]

עַם־יְהוּדָ֑ה

people people Yehuda

In this context, this expression does not refer to all of the inhabitants of the province of Judah, whatever their nationality, but rather it specifically refers to the Jews who returned from exile and settled there. In this book, the people of Judah and “the people of Israel” both refer to the Jewish people and mean the same thing. Alternate translation: [the Jews who had returned from exile and settled in the province of Judah]

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The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.

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