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Ezra 4:4-6
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4 Then the people who lived near them tried to make Judah's people afraid. They tried to stop them building. 5 They paid bribes to government officers to work against the Israelite builders. Then they could not do the work. They continued to do this all the time that King Cyrus ruled Persia, until Darius became king.

More trouble for the Jews

6 When Xerxes became king of Persia, Judah's enemies wrote a letter to him.[a] They said that the people who lived in Jerusalem and the rest of Judah were doing a bad thing.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:6 Xerxes was the son of King Darius. He was also called Ahasuerus. In this part of his book, Ezra is describing things that happened later, after the temple had been built. Now they were building the city's walls (verse 12).
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