^{4 Ref} Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

^{5 Ref} and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

^{6 Ref} In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.