Ezra 4:4-6

International Children’s Bible

⁴ Then the people around them tried to discourage the people of Judah. They tried to make them afraid to build. ⁵ Their enemies hired others to delay the building plans. This went on during the time Cyrus was king of Persia. And it continued to the time Darius was king of Persia.

More Problems for the Builders

⁶ When Xerxes became king, those enemies wrote a letter against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.