4. Then the nations that were around Judah tried to make its people lose hope. They wanted to make them afraid to go on building.
5. So they hired advisers to work against them. They wanted their plans to fail. They did it during the whole time Cyrus was king of Persia. They kept doing it until Darius became king.
6. The enemies of the Jews brought charges against the people of Judah and Jerusalem. It happened when Xerxes began to rule over Persia.