Ezra 4:11-13

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹¹ (This is a copy of the letter that they sent to him.)

To King Artaxerxes.

From your servants, men of the Trans-Euphrates.

Message:

¹² The King should know that the Judeans who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. Soon they will have completed the walls, and they are now repairing the foundations.

¹³ Now let it be known to the King that if that city is rebuilt and the walls are completed, then taxes, tribute, and revenue will not be paid, and kings certainly will be harmed.