Ezra 4:22
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
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Gill's Exposition
Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions,.... By him or them to whom it was particularly directed:
they went up in haste to…
Here we have,
I. The orders which the king of Persia gave, in answer to the information sent him by the Samaritans against the Jews. He suffered himself to be imposed upon by their fraud and…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this R.V. And take heed that ye be not slack herein. The king does not anticipate their disobedience, but warns against remissness or dilatoriness on the part of…