The governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.

Beware of being negligent in carrying out this matter; why should damage increase to the detriment of the kings?”

They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they should assemble at Jerusalem,

and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited and he himself excluded from the assembly of the exiles.