They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
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
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the go
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of