Ezra, Chapter 4, verses 3-6

³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to the LORD God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”	3 Neh 2:20 Ezr 1:1 Ezr 1:2
⁴ Then the people of the land^a Lit weakened the hands ofdiscouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building, ⁵ and hired counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.	4 Ezr 3:3
⁶ Now in the reign of^b Or Xerxes; Heb Ahash-veroshAhasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.	6 Est 1:1 Dan 9:1


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