Ezra 4:23
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Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes' document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms. (NASB ©1995)

Ezra 4:22 "Beware of being negligent in carrying out this matter; why should damage increase to the detriment of the kings?"

Ezra 4:24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. (NASB ©1995)


Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

Rehum 8,9,17

they went up Pr 4:16 Mic 2:1 Ro 3:15

force. Chal. arm

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