Ezra 4:23

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors. And they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.

Cross References

Romans 3:15

Their feet swift to shed blood:

Micah 2:1

Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

Ezra 4:17

The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe, and to the rest that were in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to the rest beyond the river, sending greeting and peace:

Ezra 4:7

And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel, and the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the Persians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syriac, and was read in the Syrian tongue.

Ezra 4:22

See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

Ezra 4:24

Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was interrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.