Ezra 4:2-4

2and they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief fathers, and said to them, We would build with you; for we seek your 1God, 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 2God, but we alone will build to Jehovah the 3God 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;