qSee Gen. 14:22
Ezra 4:1
Adversaries Oppose the Rebuilding
1Now when athe adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,Ezra 4:4
4Then bthe people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to buildEzra 4:7
The Letter to King Artaxerxes
7In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and cMithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written din Aramaic and translated. ▼▼Hebrew written in Aramaic and translated in Aramaic, indicating that 4:8–6:18 is in Aramaic; another interpretation is The letter was written in the Aramaic script and set forth in the Aramaic language
Ezra 5:3
3At the same time fTattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: g“Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?”Jeremiah 50:17-18
17 h“Israel is a hunted sheep idriven away by lions. jFirst the king of Assyria kdevoured him, and now at last lNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon mhas gnawed his bones. 18Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, nI am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, oas I punished the king of Assyria.Daniel 12:7
7And I heard pthe man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; qhe raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and rswore by him who lives forever that it would be for a stime, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of tthe power of uthe holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.Habakkuk 3:14
14You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
Zechariah 1:21
21And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, v“These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come wto terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations xwho lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”Zechariah 8:14
14For thus says the Lord of hosts: y“As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the Lord of hosts,
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