Ezr 4:21, 23, 5:5 | ESV | STEP | Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease , and that this city be not rebuilt , until a decree is made by me.

Ezra 4:21

21 Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.

Ezra 4:23

23 Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

Ezra 5:5

5 But ^athe eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.