So I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?

For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end, and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

Therefore we wanted to come to you; even I, Paul, time and again; but Satan hindered us.

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, so that they could not make them cease till the matter should be brought before Darius. Then they replied by letter concerning this.

Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the house of the scrolls, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

in the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.