Ezra 4:22-24

Living Bible

²² Do not delay, for we must not permit the situation to get out of control!”

²³ When this letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum and Shimshai, they hurried to Jerusalem and forced the Jews to stop building. ²⁴ So the work ended until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.