Ezr 4:23 | CPDV | STEP | And so a copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, the commander, and Shimshai, the scribe, and their counselors. And they went away hurriedly to Jerusalem, to the Jews. And they prohibited them by force and by strength.

Ezra 4:23

23 And so a copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, the commander, and Shimshai, the scribe, and their counselors. And they went away hurriedly to Jerusalem, to the Jews. And they prohibited them by force and by strength. ^{▼▼4:23The phrase ‘in brachio et robore’ means that they prohibited them with force (unspecified, but probably including military force) and with effectiveness; robore has a broad range of possible meaning, but in this context it means they were effective, i.e. effective strength, not merely an attempted application of strength.(Conte)}