Ezra 4:21-23

Revised Geneva Translation

²¹ “Now make a decree that those men may cease, and that the city not be built until I have given commandment.

²² “Be careful now that you do not fail to do this. Why should damage grow to hurt the king?”

²³ When the copy of King Artaxerxes’s letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and made them cease by force and power.