Ezra 4:5

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Nahum 1:11

He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

Ezra 4:24

Then the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

2 Chronicles 22:4

And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, as did the house of Ahab. For they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Ezra 4:4

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Ezra 4:6

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

Daniel 10:13

But the ruler of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. And I remained there with the kings of Persia.