Ezra 4:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ The neighboring peoples^[a] discouraged the people of Judah, made them afraid to build, ⁵ and bribed officials to frustrate their plan. They did this throughout the rule of Persia’s King Cyrus until the rule of Persia’s King Darius.

Writing to King Artaxerxes

⁶ In the rule of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his rule, they composed an indictment against those who lived in Judah and Jerusalem.