Ezra 4:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

Cross References

Nahum 1:11

One has gone out from you, who plots evil against the Lord, and is a wicked counsellor.

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.

Ezra 4:24

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.

2 Chronicles 22:4

So he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Ezra 4:4

Then the people who were already in the land  discouraged  the people of Judah and made them afraid  to build.

Ezra 4:6

At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus,  the people who were already in the land  wrote an accusation against the residents of Judah and Jerusalem.

Daniel 10:13

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael,  one of the chief princes, came to help me after I had been left there with the kings of Persia.