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Opposition to Rebuilding the Temple
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|Esdras 4:1| When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin a heard that the returned exiles 1 b were building a temple for Yahweh, the God of Israel,
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|Esdras 4:2| they approached Zerubbabel and the leaders of the families and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to Him 2 since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria 3 brought us here.” c
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|Esdras 4:3| But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other leaders of Israel’s families answered them, “You may have no part with us in building a house for our God, d since we alone must build it for Yahweh, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.” e
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|Esdras 4:4| Then the people who were already in the land 4 discouraged 5 the people of Judah and made them afraid f to build.
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|Esdras 4:5| They also bribed officials to act against them to frustrate their plans g throughout the reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia. 6 h
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Opposition to Rebuilding the City
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|Esdras 4:6| At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus, 7 i the people who were already in the land 8 j wrote an accusation against the residents of Judah and Jerusalem.
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|Esdras 4:7| During the time of King Artaxerxes of Persia, 9 k Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his colleagues wrote to King Artaxerxes. The letter was written in Aramaic l and translated. 10 11
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|Esdras 4:8| Rehum the chief deputy and Shimshai the scribe m wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes concerning Jerusalem as follows:
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|Esdras 4:9|From Rehum 12 the chief deputy, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues — the judges and magistrates 13 from Tripolis, Persia, Erech, Babylon, Susa n (that is, the people of Elam), 14
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|Esdras 4:10|and the rest of the peoples whom the great and illustrious Ashurbanipal 15 deported and settled in the cities of Samaria o and the region west of the Euphrates River. p
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