Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Rehum
They went up
Bible References
Rehum
Ezra 4:8
Rehum counsellor, and Shimshai scribe have written a letter concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king, thus:
They went up
Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
Romans 3:15
Swift are their feet to shed blood.