Ezra 4:23

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Now when the copy of the letter of Sovereign Artaḥshashta was read before Reḥum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in a hurry to Yerushalayim against the Yehuḏim, and made them cease by might and power.

Cross References

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

Micah 2:1

Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

Ezra 4:17

The sovereign sent a message: To Reḥum the governor, and Shimshai the scribe, to the rest of their companions who dwell in Shomeron, and the rest beyond the River: Peace! And now,

Ezra 4:7

And in the days of Artaḥshashta, Bishlam, Mithreḏath, Taḇe’ĕl, and the rest of their companions wrote to Artaḥshashta sovereign of Persia. And the letter was written in Aramaic, and translated from Aramaic.

Ezra 4:22

And beware of negligence to do this. Why should damage increase to the hurt of the sovereigns?

Ezra 4:24

Then the work of the House of Elah which is at Yerushalayim ceased, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Dareyawesh sovereign of Persia.