Ezra 4:16

4:16 We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control ¹  of this portion of Trans-Euphrates.”

Ezra 4:23

4:23 Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem ²  and stopped them with threat of armed force. ³ 

[4:16]  ¹ tn Aram “will not be to you.”

[4:23]  ² tn Aram “to Jerusalem against the Jews.”

[4:23]  ³ tn Aram “by force and power,” a hendiadys.