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23 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and their group hurried to Jerusalem after hearing a copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter. They forced the Jews to stop rebuilding.

24 Then the work on Elah’s temple in Jerusalem was stopped. Nothing more was done until Darius’ second year as king of Persia.

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