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Ezra 4:23-24

Context

4:23 Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem 1  and stopped them with threat of armed force. 2 

4:24 So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia. 3 

1 tn Aram “to Jerusalem against the Jews.”

2 tn Aram “by force and power,” a hendiadys.

3 sn Darius I Hystaspes ruled Persia ca. 522–486 b.c.



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