And he spoke to his officers, saying, “Surely you know that there is a Jewish people in our midst in Jerusalem.
They do not sacrifice to our gods, our laws they do not keep, and they neglect the laws of the king, to follow their own.
And further, they look forward to a day of destruction of kings and rulers for when, they say ‘When will our king rule over us; and we shall govern land and sea, and all the world will be our dominion.’ It is not to the glory of the kingdom, to suffer them on the face of the earth.