Ezra 4:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴Then the people who had been living in the land tried to discourage and frighten the Jews and keep them from building. ⁵They also bribed Persian government officials to work against them. They kept on doing this throughout the reign of Emperor Cyrus and into the reign of Emperor Darius.^[a]

Opposition to the Rebuilding of Jerusalem

⁶^[b]At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Xerxes, the enemies of the people living in Judah and Jerusalem brought written charges against them.

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Footnotes

Ezra 4:5 The account of these events is continued at verse 24. The material in verses 6-23 describes events which took place almost a century later.
Ezra 4:6 AddEsth 1:1