Ezra 4:24
So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.
Haggai 1:15
This was on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year that Darius was king.
Ezra 5:5
The eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer came by letter about it.
Ezra 6:1
Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records. This is where the things of value were stored in Babylon.
Nehemiah 6:3
I sent men to them saying: I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come. Should the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come to you?
Nehemiah 6:9
They hoped to put fear in us, saying: Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
Job 20:5
The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
1 Thessalonians 2:18
We wanted to come to you. I, Paul, wanted to more than once and yet Satan hindered us.