Ezra 4:2

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Summary

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 Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

Let us

2 Peter 2:1

We do

2 Kings 17:24

Esarhaddon

Ezra 4:10

Bible References

Let us

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly. They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus. This was so they might bring us into bondage.

And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith,

There arose false prophets among the people. There will be false teachers among you! They will privately bring in destructive heresies (contrary doctrines), denying even the Master who bought them. They bring swift destruction on themselves.

We do

Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel. They acquired Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

Esarhaddon

The rest of the nations the great and noble Osnappar took over and put in Samaria and the rest of the country over the river: