Ezra 4:3-6

3But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, a“You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, bas King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

4Then cthe people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build 5and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

6And in the reign of dAhasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

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