Opposition to Rebuilding the City

At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus,[a](A) the people who were already in the land[b](B) wrote an accusation against the residents of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:6 = Xerxes; he reigned 486–465 b.c.
  2. Ezra 4:6 Lit people of the land

Daniel’s Prayer

In the first year of Darius,(A) the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

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