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Ezra 4:23-24
New Catholic Bible
Ezra 4:23-24
New Catholic Bible
23 As soon as the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum the governor, Shimshai the secretary, and their colleagues, they traveled immediately to Jerusalem and compelled the Jews by force of arms to stop their work.
24 Rebuilding of the Temple. Work on the house of God in Jerusalem then ceased, and it so remained until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.[a]
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- Ezra 4:24 Work on the temple was interrupted for as many as ten years and resumed about the year 520 B.C.
