28 Now therefore I have commanded to prevent those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this order, (WEB) 29 and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.” (WEB) 30 Then King Artaxerxes, his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their associates, went in haste to Jerusalem with cavalry and a multitude of people in battle array, and began to hinder the builders. So the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of King Darius of the Persians. (WEB)
1 Esdras 2:28–30
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