Ezra 4:23; Ezra 4:24

Ezra 4:23

23 As soon as the copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum and Shimshai the secretary and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by force to stop.

Ezra 4:24

24 Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.