Ezra 4:1-5

1Now when 1the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that 2the people of the exile were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel, 2they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; 3and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of 4Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.” 3But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “5You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to the Lord God of Israel, 6as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”

4Then 7the people of the land 8discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building, 5and hired counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.