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and by their secret plots and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived. So they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius.
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We ourselves alone will build unto the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded us."
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But the heathen of the land, laying heavily upon the inhabitants of Judea and holding them straitened, hindered their building;
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and by their secret plots and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived. So they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius.
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