23 When the copy of king Artaxerxes’s letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in all the haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and caused them to cease by force and power.

24 Then [a]ceased the work of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem, and did stay unto the second year of Darius king of Persia.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:24 Not altogether for the Prophets exhorted them to continue, but they used less diligence because of the troubles.

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