Ezra 4:21-25
Ezra 4:21
Now issue a decree to make those men stop work, so that this city will not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.
Ezra 4:22
And beware of being negligent in carrying out this matter; why should there be great damage, to the detriment of the kings?”
Ezra 4:23
Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ decree was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in a hurry to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by military force.
Ezra 4:24
Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.