Ezr 4:12-15, Est 3:8-9, Act 18:2, 19:34 | ESV | STEP | be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem . They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city . They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations .

Ezra 4:12-15

12 be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are ^afinishing the walls and repairing the foundations. 13 Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay ^btribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired. 14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king, 15 in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

Esther 3:8-9

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^cTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. 9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”

Acts 18:2

2 And he found a Jew named ^eAquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife ^fPriscilla, because ^gClaudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,

Acts 19:34

34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, ^h“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”