Ezra 4:24

Rebuilding Of The Temple Resumed

²³ Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms. ²⁴ Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

House of God

Temple of God

Work of God

Darius

Ezra

Jerusalem

Persia

Haggai 1:15

on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

Ezra 6:1

Then King Darius issued a decree, and search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:9

For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless momentary?

1 Thessalonians 2:18

For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and yet Satan hindered us.