Ezra 4:24

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The Jews were forced to stop work on the temple and were not able to do any more building until the year after Darius became king of Persia.

Cross References

Ezra 3:8

During the second month of the second year after the people had returned from Babylonia, they started rebuilding the LORD's temple. Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the priests, the Levites, and everyone else who had returned started working. Every Levite over twenty years of age was put in charge of some part of the work.

Ezra 4:23

As soon as this letter was read, Governor Rehum, Secretary Shimshai, and their advisers went to Jerusalem and forced everyone to stop rebuilding the city.

Ezra 4:5

During the time when Cyrus was king and even until Darius became king, they kept bribing government officials to slow down the work.

Ezra 5:1

Then the LORD God of Israel told the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to speak in his name to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. And they did.

Ezra 5:5

But God was looking after the Jewish leaders. So the governor and his group decided not to make the people stop working on the temple until they could report to Darius and get his advice.

Ezra 6:1

King Darius ordered someone to go through the old records kept in Babylonia.

Ezra 6:14

With great success the Jewish leaders continued working on the temple, while Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them by their preaching. And so, the temple was completed at the command of the God of Israel and by the orders of kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia.

Ezra 6:15

On the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the rule of Darius, the temple was finished.

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to tell them, “My work is too important to stop now and go there. I can't afford to slow down the work just to visit you.”

Nehemiah 6:9

Our enemies were trying to frighten us and to keep us from our work. But I asked God to give me strength.

Job 20:5

that sinful people are happy for only a while.

Daniel 11:2

What I am going to tell you is certain to happen. Four kings will rule Persia, one after the other, but the fourth one will become much richer than the others. In fact, his wealth will make him so powerful that he will turn everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

Daniel 9:25

You need to realize that from the command to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Chosen Leader, it will be seven weeks and another sixty-two weeks. Streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection, but these will be difficult times.

Haggai 1:1

On the first day of the sixth month of the second year that Darius was king of Persia, the LORD told Haggai the prophet to speak his message to the governor of Judah and to the high priest. So Haggai told Governor Zerubbabel and High Priest Joshua

Haggai 1:15

And the work began on the twenty-fourth day of that same month.

Haggai 2:15

But from now on, things will get better. Before you started laying the foundation for the temple,

Haggai 2:18

Today you have completed the foundation for my temple, so listen to what your future will be like.

Zechariah 1:1

I am the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah and the grandson of Iddo. In the eighth month of the second year that Darius was king of Persia, the LORD told me to say:

1 Thessalonians 2:18

We really wanted to come. I myself tried several times, but Satan always stopped us.