Ezra 4:12

Overview - Ezra 4
The adversaries, being not accepted in the building of the temple with the Jews, endeavour to hinder it.
Their letter to Artaxerxes.
17 The answer and decree of Artaxerxes.
23 The building is hindered.
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Ezra 4:12  (King James Version)
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
 


rebellious
Ezra 4:15 Ezra 4:19 ; 2 Kings 18:20 ; 24:1 2 Chronicles 36:13 ; Jeremiah 52:3 ; Ezekiel 17:12-21
Luke 23:2-5 ; Acts 24:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ; 1 Peter 2:13-15

bad city
Psalms 48:1 Psalms 48:2 ; Isaiah 1:21-23 ; Luke 13:34

set up
or, finished.
Nehemiah 1:3 ; Daniel 9:25

joined
Chal. sewed together.