1 Esdras 5:71

⁶⁹For we likewise, as ye, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice unto him from the days of Esar-haddon the king of the Assyrians, who brought us hither.

⁷⁰Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the chief of the families of Israel said unto them, It is not for us and you to build together a house unto the Lord our God.

— 1 Esdras 5:71 —

⁷²But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;

⁷³and 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.