Ezra 4:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now the construction of God’s house in Jerusalem had stopped and remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.

Cross References

Haggai 1:15

on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

Job 20:5

the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

Nehemiah 6:9

For they were all trying to intimidate  us, saying, ‘They will drop their hands from  the work,  and it will never be finished.’ But now, my God, strengthen my hands.

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, ‘I am doing important work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you? ’

Ezra 6:1

King Darius gave the order, and they searched  in the library of Babylon in the archives.  ,

Ezra 5:5

But God was watching  over  the Jewish elders. These men wouldn’t stop them until a report was sent to Darius, so that they could receive written instructions about this matter.

1 Thessalonians 2:18

So we wanted to come to you #– #even I, Paul, time and again #– #but Satan  hindered us.

Ezra 4:23

As soon as the text of King Artaxerxes’s letter was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues,  they immediately went to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.

Ezra 5:1

But when the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo  prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them,

Ezra 6:14

So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo.  They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus,  Darius, and King Artaxerxes  of Persia.

Daniel 9:25

Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an Anointed One,  the ruler, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with a square and a moat, but in difficult times.

Haggai 1:1

In the second year of King Darius,  , on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet  Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,  the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

Haggai 2:15

‘Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,

Zechariah 1:1

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius,  the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah  son of Berechiah, son of Iddo:

Ezra 3:8

In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak,  and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the Lord’s house.

Ezra 4:5

They also bribed officials to act against them to frustrate their plans  throughout the reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia.

Ezra 6:15

This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar  in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Daniel 11:2

Now I will tell you the truth. ‘Three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will be far richer than the others. By the power he gains through his riches, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

Haggai 2:18

From this day on, think carefully;  from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; think carefully.