OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 4:24

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Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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Verse 24. House. They went beyond the order, which only forbade the building of the city, verse 21.—Darius, A. 3485. Calmet.—He was the son of Hystaspes, (Saint Jerome) and not Nothus, the sixth from Cyrus, as Sulpitius and Scalinger believe. Tirinus.

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