Ezra 4:22-24

Revised Geneva Translation

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.

²⁴ Then the work of the House of God which was in Jerusalem ceased. And it ceased until the second year of Darius, king of Persia.