Ezra 4:3-6

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 1God, but we alone will build to Jehovah the 2God 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.