Ezra 4:2
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ houses, and said unto them, Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as ye do; and we sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Zerubbabel
- Ezra 1:5; Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2, 12
- Let us
- Proverbs 26:23–26; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Galatians 2:4; 2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Peter 2:1, 2
- we do
- 2 Kings 17:24, 27–33, 41
- Esarhaddon
- Ezra 4:10
- Asnappar
- 2 Kings 19:37
- Assur
- Genesis 10:11; Psalm 73:8; Isaiah 37:37
- Assyria
- Hosea 14:3