1 Esdras 2:15-17
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
15 and they were carried back by Sheshbazzar with the returning exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Opposition to Rebuilding Jerusalem
16 In the time of King Artaxerxes of the Persians, Bishlam, Mithridates, Tabeel, Rehum, Beltethmus, the scribe Shimshai, and the rest of their associates, living in Samaria and other places, wrote him the following letter, against those who were living in Judea and Jerusalem:
17 ‘To King Artaxerxes our lord, your servants the recorder Rehum and the scribe Shimshai and the other members of their council, and the judges in Coelesyria and Phoenicia:
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