Then after these things were rehearsed (or read), that were written of (or from) Artaxerxes, the king, Rath-ymus, and Semellius, the scribe, and they that were with them ordained, enjoining, hieingly (or hastily) came into Jerusalem, with horsemen, and people, and with company; and they began to prevent (or to hinder) the builders. And they voided (or ceased) then from the building of the temple [in Jerusalem], unto the second year of the realm of Darius, king of Persia.