1 Esdras 2:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁴ All the vessels were handed over, gold and silver, five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine, ¹⁵ and they were carried back by Sheshbazzar with the returning exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Opposition to Rebuilding Jerusalem

¹⁶ In the time of King Artaxerxes of the Persians, Bishlam, Mithridates, Tabeel, Rehum, Beltethmus, the scribe Shimshai, and the rest of their associates, living in Samaria and other places, wrote him the following letter, against those who were living in Judea and Jerusalem: