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The order is enforced; temple work stops.
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Ezra 4:23-24

Work Brought to a Halt

When the Building Was Opposed · Ezra 4

Story guide: Officials enforce the king’s order, and the account returns to the halted temple work.

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23Then, as soon as the copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and made them stop by force and power.

24Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it remained stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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