Ezra 4
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Ezra 4:4-7

4Then 1the people of the land 2discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building, 5and bribed advisers against them to frustrate their advice all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

6Now in the reign of 34Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

7And in the days of 5Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the 6text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated 7from Aramaic.

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezra 4:4 Ezra 3:3 ↩
  2. 2. Ezra 4:4 Lit slackened the hands of ↩
  3. 3. Ezra 4:6 Or Xerxes; Heb Ahash-verosh ↩
  4. 4. Ezra 4:6 Esth 1:1; Dan 9:1 ↩
  5. 5. Ezra 4:7 Heb Artah-shashta ↩
  6. 6. Ezra 4:7 Lit writing ↩
  7. 7. Ezra 4:7 2 Kin 18:26; Dan 2:4 ↩

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