Ezra 4:1,4 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel, 4 the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build and bribed the counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus King of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.