Ezra 4:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief fathers of Israel said to them, “It is not for you but for us to build the House to our God. For we ourselves together will build it to the LORD God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”

⁴ Therefore, the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.

⁵ And they hired counselors against them to hinder their plans all the days of Cyrus, king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius, king of Persia.