Ezra 4:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 22:4

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

Ezra 4:24

So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

Ezra 4:4

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

Ezra 4:6

And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.

Daniel 10:13

But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.

Nahum 1:11

One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.