Now let it be known to the king that if this city is rebuilt, and the walls completed, they will not give tax, tribute, and forced labor, and it will cause the king’s revenue to suffer.
Then as soon as the copy of the letter of Artaxerxes the king was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they hurried to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them stop working by force and power.
Then this Daniel was excelling above the presidents and satraps, because a surpassing spirit was in him. And the king was planning to set him over all the kingdom.