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.
on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I le
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finishe
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
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
For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.