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

Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?

Out of thee, hath one come forth - plotting, against Yahweh, wickedness, - A counselor of the Abandoned One.

Darius

Then ceased the work of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem, - yea it did cease, until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Nevertheless, the eye of their God, was upon the elders of Judah, and they did not forbid them, until the matter, unto Darius, should come, - and, then, answer be returned by letter, concerning this.

Then, Darius the king, issued an edict, - and they made search in the house of the books, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.