Ezra 4:4-6

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⁴Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,^[a] ⁵and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Dari′us king of Persia.

Rebuilding of Jerusalem Opposed

⁶And in the reign of Ahasu-e′rus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

4.4 Understandably, the people who had occupied the land in the absence of the exiles now resented their return and, especially, the building of the temple.

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