Ezra 4 Footnotes
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4:20 Some scholars doubt the Bible’s depiction of a once-powerful kingdom of Israel. However, the enemies used Israel’s glorious past as a principal argument to convince Artaxerxes to stop the rebuilding project. Artaxerxes’s principal motivation for complying with their request was his discovery in Persia’s historical archives that this was indeed part of Israel’s past.