KJV King James Version
And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
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Ezra 4:5
And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
WEB World English Bible
and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
ASV American Standard Version
and 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and are hiring against them counsellors to make void their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even till the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Surrounding context — Ezra 4
2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
5 And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they [unto him] an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter [was] written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
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וְסֹכְרִ֧יםH7936 · sa.kharto hireעֲלֵיהֶ֛םH5921 · aluponיוֹעֲצִ֖יםH3289 · ya.atsto adviseלְהָפֵ֣רH6565 · pa.rarto breakעֲצָתָ֑םH6098 · e.tsahcounselכָּל־H3605 · kolallיְמֵ֗יH3117 · yomdayכּ֚וֹרֶשׁH3566 · ko.reshCyrusמֶ֣לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingפָּרַ֔סH6539 · pa.rasPersiaוְעַד־H5704 · adtillמַלְכ֖וּתH4438 · mal.khutroyaltyדָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁH1867 · dar.ya.veshDariusמֶֽלֶךְ־H4428 · me.lekhkingפָּרָֽס׃H6539 · pa.rasPersia
Cross-references
Nahum 1:11There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.Acts 24:1-27And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.Psalm 2:1-2Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this [matter].Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
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