Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Bible References

Hired

Psalm 2:1
Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?
Nahum 1:11
He has come out of thee that has imagined evil against the LORD, a counsellor of Belial.

Darius

Ezra 4:24
Then the work of the house of God which was at Jerusalem ceased. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius, king of Persia.
Ezra 5:5
For the eyes of their God were upon the elders of the Jews, and they could not cause them to cease until the matter came to Darius, and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra 6:1
Then Darius, the king, gave a commandment, and a search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.