Creation year 3386 · overlaps Nisan years 939–940 · Historical date begins about 537 BC · Judah
Opposition discourages the builders and the temple work remains stopped until Darius’s second year. Ezra 4:6–23 looks ahead to later opposition under Ahasuerus and Artaxerxes; this event follows the temple-work thread in verses 4–5 and 24.
King James Version
“Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, 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. Then 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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