Ezra 4:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 22:4

In fact, after his father's death, Ahaziah sinned against the LORD by appointing some of Ahab's relatives to be his advisers. Their advice led to his downfall.

Ezra 4:24

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.

Ezra 4:4

Then the neighbouring people began to do everything possible to frighten the Jews and to make them stop building.

Ezra 4:6

In the first year that Xerxes was king, the neighbouring people brought written charges against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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.

Daniel 10:13

But the guardian angel of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, who is one of the strongest guardian angels, came to rescue me from the kings of Persia.

Nahum 1:11

Assyria, one of your rulers has made evil plans against the LORD.