28. Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this order;
29. and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.
30. Then king Artaxerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste to Jerusalem with horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.