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Ezra 4:1

Now when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people of the exile were building a temple to the LORD God of Israel,

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Ezra 4:2

they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' households, and said to them, "Let us build with you, for like you, we seek your God; and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here."

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Ezra 4:3

But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers' households of Israel said to them, "You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build for the LORD God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us."

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Ezra 4:4

Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building,

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Ezra 4:5

and 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.

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