1 Esdras 2:27

²⁵Then the king wrote back again to Rehum the storywriter, to Beltethmus, to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, after this manner;

²⁶I 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 practicing against kings;

— 1 Esdras 2:27 —

²⁸Now 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;

²⁹and that those wicked workers proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.