They could not cause them to cease; because God overruled their hearts and hands, that they did not hinder them by force, as they could have done.
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Ezra 5:5
5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.