Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why do you not repair the broken places of the house? now therefore receive no more money from your acquaintances, but deliver it for the broken places of the house.
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 Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,