Ezra 4:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them in building.

⁵ And they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their design all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

⁶ And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.