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Ezra 4:4-6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ezra 4:4-6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
4 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,[a] 5 and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Dari′us king of Persia.
Rebuilding of Jerusalem Opposed
6 And in the reign of Ahasu-e′rus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
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- 4.4 Understandably, the people who had occupied the land in the absence of the exiles now resented their return and, especially, the building of the temple.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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