Ezra 4:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ and they bribed officials to frustrate their plan throughout the reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose and plans all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius [II] king of Persia.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Common English Bible

⁵ and bribed officials to frustrate their plan. They did this throughout the rule of Persia’s King Cyrus until the rule of Persia’s King Darius.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Then they hired counselors against them, so that they might argue against their plan during all the days of Cyrus, king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius, king of the Persians.

Ezra 4:5 Cross References

Nahum 1:11

From you one has gone out who plots evil against the Lord, one who counsels wickedness.

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report reached Darius and then answer was returned by letter in reply to it.

Ezra 4:24

At that time the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.

2 Chronicles 22:4

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his ruin.

Ezra 4:4

Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build,

Ezra 4:6

In the reign of Ahasuerus, in his accession year, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

Daniel 10:13

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me twenty-one days. So Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of Persia