Ezra 4:1-7

1And the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to Jehovah the 1God of Israel;

2and they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief fathers, and said to them, We would build with you; for we seek your 2God, as ye; and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.

3But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief fathers of Israel said to them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house to our 3God, but we alone will build to Jehovah the 4God of Israel, as king Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.

4And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building;

5and they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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

7And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic, and interpreted in Aramaic.