Ezra 4:4-6

Revised Geneva Translation

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.

⁶ And in the reign of Ahasuerus (in the beginning of his reign) they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.