le.

1 Esdr 2:19
Now if this city and the walls thereof be made up again, they will
not only refuse to give tribute, but also rebel against kings.

1 Esdr 2:20
And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now
in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter,

1 Esdr 2:21
But to speak unto our lord the king, to the intent that, if
it be thy pleasure it may be sought out in the books of thy
fathers:

1 Esdr 2:22
And thou shalt find in the chronicles what is written concerning
these things, and shalt understand that that city was rebellious,
troubling both kings and cities:

1 Esdr 2:23
And that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein;
for the which cause even this city was made desolate.

1 Esdr 2:24
Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that
if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew,
thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Celosyria and
Phenice.

1 Esdr 2:25
Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter,
to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that
were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and
Phenice, after this manner;

1 Esdr 2:26
I have read the epistle which ye have sent unto me: therefore
I commanded to make diligent search, and it hath been found that
that city was from the beginning practising against kings;

1 Esdr 2:27
And the men therein were given to rebellion and war: and that
mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted
tributes in Celosyria and Phenice.

1 Esdr 2:28
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;

1 Esdr 2:29
And that those wicked workers proceed no further to the annoyance
of kings,

1 Esdr 2:30
Then king Artexerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Semellius
the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing
in haste toward Jerusalem with a troop of 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.

1 Esdr 3:1
Now when Darius reigned, he made a great feast unto all his subjects,
and unto all his household, and unto all the princes of Media and
Persia,

1 Esdr 3:2
And to all the governors and captains and lieutenants that were under
him, from India unto Ethiopia, o