Ezra 4:22-24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

²³ Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.

²⁴ Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was interrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.