OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 4:23

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23

Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

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Verse 23. Beelteem, is not in Chal.—Arm, or “force.” Prot. Bible.

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