The adversaries, being not accepted in the building of the temple with the Jews, endeavour to hinder it, Ezr_4:1-6. Their false and malicious letter to Artaxerxes, Ezr_4:7-16. Artexerxes’s decree: the building is hindered, Ezr_4:17-24.
The adversaries of Judah and Benjamin; the Samaritans, as appears from Ezr_4:2,10.