Ezra 4:5

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 22:4

Ahaziah did what the Lord said was wrong, as Ahab’s family had done. They gave advice to Ahaziah after his father died, and their bad advice led to his death.

Ezra 4:24

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

Ezra 4:4

Then the people around them tried to discourage the people of Judah by making them afraid to build.

Ezra 4:6

When Xerxes first became king, those enemies wrote a letter against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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.

Daniel 10:13

But the prince of Persia has been fighting against me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the most important angels, came to help me, because I had been left there with the king of Persia.

Nahum 1:11

Someone has come from Nineveh who makes evil plans against the Lord and gives wicked advice.