Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Yerushalayim unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of YY by Haggai the prophet unto Zrubavel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Yhudah, and to Y'howshu`a the son of Josedech, kohen hagadol, saying,
Then king Jehoash called for Yhoyada the kohen, and the other kohanim, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.