Ezra 4:24

New Century Version

So the work on the Temple of God in Jerusalem stopped until the second year Darius was king of Persia.

Cross References

Ezra 3:8

In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the Temple of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, their fellow priests and Levites, and all who had returned from captivity to Jerusalem began to work. They chose Levites twenty years old and older to be in charge of the building of the Temple of the Lord.

Ezra 4:23

A copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes sent was read to Rehum and Shimshai the secretary and the others. Then they quickly went to the Jewish people in Jerusalem and forced them to stop building.

Ezra 4:5

Their enemies hired others to delay the building plans during the time Cyrus was king of Persia. And it continued to the time Darius was king of Persia.

Ezra 5:1

The prophets Haggai and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jewish people in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

Ezra 5:5

But their God was watching over the elders of the Jewish people. The builders were not stopped until a report could go to King Darius and his written answer could be received.

Ezra 6:1

So King Darius gave an order to search the records kept in the treasury in Babylon.

Ezra 6:14

The Jewish elders continued to build and were successful because of the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the Temple as the God of Israel had commanded and as kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia had ordered.

Ezra 6:15

The Temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year Darius was king.

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them with this answer: “I am doing a great work, and I can’t come down. I don’t want the work to stop while I leave to meet you.”

Nehemiah 6:9

Our enemies were trying to scare us, thinking, “They will get too weak to work. Then the wall will not be finished.” But I prayed, “God, make me strong.”

Job 20:5

The happiness of evil people is brief, and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.

Daniel 11:2

“Now then, Daniel, I tell you the truth: Three more kings will rule in Persia, and then a fourth king will come. He will be much richer than all the kings of Persia before him and will use his riches to get power. He will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

Daniel 9:25

“Learn and understand these things. A command will come to rebuild Jerusalem. The time from this command until the appointed leader comes will be forty-nine years and four hundred thirty-four years. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and a trench filled with water around it, but it will be built in times of trouble.

Haggai 1:1

The prophet Haggai spoke the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. This message came in the second year that Darius was king, on the first day of the sixth month:

Haggai 1:15

They began on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year Darius was king.

Haggai 2:15

“ ‘Think about this from now on! Think about how it was before you started laying stones on top of stones to build the Temple of the Lord.

Haggai 2:18

‘It is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day in which the people finished working on the foundation of the Temple of the Lord. From now on, think about these things:

Zechariah 1:1

In the eighth month of the second year Darius was king, the Lord spoke his word to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, who was the son of Iddo. The Lord said,

1 Thessalonians 2:18

We wanted to come to you. I, Paul, tried to come more than once, but Satan stopped us.