21. Now, make a decree to make these men cease, and that this city be not built until the command is given by me.
22. And beware of negligence to do this. Why should damage increase to the hurt of the sovereigns?
23. 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.
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.