1 Esdras 2:28
“Now therefore I haue commanded to hinder those men from building the citie, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it,”
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1 Esdras 2:28 Context
26I haue read the Epistle which ye haue sent vnto mee: therefore I commanded to make diligent search, and it hath bene found, that that city was from the beginning practising against Kings. 27And the men therein were giuen to rebellion, and warre, and that mightie Kings and fierce were in Ierusalem, who reigned and exacted tributes in Coelosyria and Phenice. 28Now therefore I haue commanded to hinder those men from building the citie, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it, 29And that those wicked workers proceed no further to the annoyance of Kings. 30Then king Artaxerxes his letters being read, Rathumus and Semellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, remoouing in hast towards Ierusalem with a troupe of horsemen, and a multitude of people in battell aray, began to hinder the builders, and the building of the Temple in Ierusalem ceased vntill the second yeere of the reigne of Darius King of the Persians.
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Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it;
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