Ezra 4:3–4

3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of Israel’s families answered them, “You may have no part with us in building a house for our God,y since we alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”z 4 Then the people who were already in the land* discouragedB the people of Judah and made them afraidaa to build.