But Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the other leaders of Israel’s people said, ‘No. You cannot help us to build the temple for our God. We must build it by ourselves for the Lord, Israel’s God. That is what Cyrus, king of Persia, has commanded us to do.’ Then the people who lived near them tried to make Judah’s people afraid. They tried to stop them building. Ezra 4:3-4
但所羅巴伯、耶書亞，和其餘以色列的族長對他們說：「我們建造上帝的殿與你們無干，我們自己為耶和華－以色列的上帝協力建造，是照波斯王塞魯士所吩咐的。」 那地的民，就在猶大人建造的時候，使他們的手發軟，擾亂他們；
以斯拉記 4:3-4