Ezra:4:1-5
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Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
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Then they came to Zerubbabel ,
and to the chief of the fathers ,
and said unto them ,
Let us build with you :
for we seek your God ,
as ye do ;
and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon #
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king of Assur ,
which brought us up hither .
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But Zerubbabel ,
and Jeshua ,
and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel Yisra #
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said unto them ,
Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God ;
but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
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as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us .
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Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah ,
and troubled (
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them in building ,
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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 .