Ezra 4:24

Modern English Version

Then the work of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased. So it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Cross References

Ezra 3:8

Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Joshua the son of Jozadak, along with the remnant of their brothers the Levitical priests and all who had come out of captivity back to Jerusalem, began work and appointed the Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the work on the house of the Lord.

Ezra 4:23

Now when the copy of the letter by King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and made them cease by force and power.

Ezra 4:5

and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 5:1

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

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they could not cause them to cease building until a command came from Darius. Consequently, they sent a letter concerning this matter.

Ezra 6:1

Then Darius the king issued a decree and a search was made in the house of records, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

Ezra 6:14

The rebuilding by the elders of the Jews prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built, and finished it, according to the decree of the God of Israel and according to the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

Ezra 6:15

This temple was finished on the third day of the month Adar during the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so I am not able to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:9

Because they all wanted to frighten us, they thought, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, and it will not be done.” So now, O God, strengthen my hands.

Job 20:5

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

Daniel 11:2

“And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall stand up in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them; and by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

Daniel 9:25

“Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until the Prince Messiah shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of trouble.

Haggai 1:1

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

Haggai 1:15

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

Haggai 2:15

Now consider from this day onward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord,

Haggai 2:18

Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid, consider:

Zechariah 1:1

In the eighth month, during the second year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying:

1 Thessalonians 2:18

Therefore we wished to come to you—even I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.