Ezr 4:23-24 | ESV | STEP | 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 4:23-24

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. 24 Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.