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Ezra 4:3-5
English Standard Version
Ezra 4:3-5
English Standard Version
3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, (A)“You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, (B)as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
4 Then (C)the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build 5 and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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