Then (A)the people of the land [a]discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Now in the reign of [b](B)Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:4 Lit weakened the hands of
  2. Ezra 4:6 Or Xerxes; Heb Ahash-verosh