Ezra 4:24

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Ezra 4:22–24 · Berean Standard Bible

22 See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

23 When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.

24 Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:9

For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

1 Thessalonians 2:18

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.

Ezra 6:1

Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.

Haggai 1:15

on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.