Ezra 4:22

WEB

²²Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

KJV

²²Take heed^[+] now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

BSB

²²See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

FBV

²²See that you do not neglect this matter. Why should this problem be allowed to grow and damage royal interests?”

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Esther 3:8-9

⁸Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain. ⁹If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents^[+] of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Ezra 4:13

¹³Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

Esther 7:3-4

³Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. ⁴For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”