Ezra 4:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city be not built, till further orders be given by me.

²² See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

²³ Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.