Ezra 4:4-6

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁴ Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah and troubled them in building

⁵ and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their counsel, all the days of Cyrus, king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius, king of Persia.

⁶ ¶ And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote accusations against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.