Ezra 4:22 BSB — MannaFest

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11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּזְהִירִ֥ין	u.ze.hi.Rin	and cautious	H2095 →
הֱו֛וֹ	he.Vo	be	H1934 →
שָׁל֖וּ	sha.Lu	negligence	H7960 →
לְמֶעְבַּ֣ד	le.me'.Bad	to do	H5648 →
עַל־	'al-	concerning	H5922 →
דְּנָ֑ה	de.Nah	this	H1836 →
לְמָה֙	le.Mah	<to> why?	H4101 →
יִשְׂגֵּ֣א	yis.Ge'	will it grow great	H7680 →
חֲבָלָ֔א	cha.va.La'	damage the	H2257 →
לְהַנְזָקַ֖ת	le.han.za.Kat	to injury	H5142 →
מַלְכִֽין׃ ס	mal.Khin	kings	H4430 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezra 4:13
Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, they will not pay tribute, duty, or toll, and the royal treasury will suffer.
leads to
- Ezra 7:24
  And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
- Nehemiah 5:4
  Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
- Romans 13:6–7
  This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
- Matthew 9:9
  As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
- Psalms 52:2
  Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Daniel 6:2and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.Esther 3:8–9Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.Ezra 4:13Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, they will not pay tribute, duty, or toll, and the royal treasury will suffer.Esther 7:3–4Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

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