Ezra 4:5

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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.

Hired

Psalm 2:1

Nahum 1:11

Darius

Ezra 4:24

Ezra 5:5

Ezra 6:1

Bible References

Hired

Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God],
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?

From you [O Nineveh],
One has gone forth who plotted evil against the Lord,
A malevolent counselor [the king of Assyria].

Darius

Then the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped. It was suspended until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so they [Tattenai and the others] did not stop them until a report could come before Darius, and then an answer was returned by letter concerning it.

Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was conducted in Babylon in the archives where the treasures [and records] were stored.