lesserot - Ezra:4:1-5

lesserot@Ezra:4:1 @ Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the exile were building the temple unto the Lord the God of Israel:

lesserot@Ezra:4:2 @ Then came they near to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefs of the divisions, and said unto them, Let us build with you; for like you will we seek your God; and unto him do we sacrifice since the days of Essarchaddon the king of Asshur, who hath brought us up hither.

lesserot@Ezra:4:3 @ But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the of the divisions of Israel, said unto them, It is not obligatory on you and on us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together must build unto the Lord the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

lesserot@Ezra:4:4 @ Then did the people of the land weaken the hands of the people of Judah, and frightened them off from building;

lesserot@Ezra:4:5 @ And they hired against them counsellors, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus the king of Persia, and even until the reign of Darius the king of Persia.