Ezra 4:4

4:4 Then the local people9 began to discourage10 the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.

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9	tn Heb “the people of the land.” Elsewhere this expression sometimes has a negative connotation, referring to a lay population that was less zealous for Judaism than it should have been. Here, however, it seems to refer to the resident population of the area without any negative connotation.
10	tn Heb “were making slack the hands of.”