Ezra 4:11, 23
Ezra 4:11 NIV
(This is a copy of the letter they sent him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants in Trans-Euphrates
Ezra 4:23 NIV
As soon as the copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum and Shimshai the secretary and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by force to stop.





