Rehum the [a]chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king, in this sort.

Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions [b]Dinai, and Apharsathcai, Tarpelai, Persia, Archevai, Bablai, Shushanchai, Dehave, Elamai,

10 And the rest of the people whom the great and noble [c]Osnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and other that are beyond the [d]River and [e]Cheeneth.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:8 Or, counselor.
  2. Ezra 4:9 These were certain people which the Assyrians placed in Samaria instead of the ten tribes.
  3. Ezra 4:10 Some think it was Sennacherib, but rather Shalmaneser.
  4. Ezra 4:10 To wit, Euphrates: and he meaneth in respect of Babel that they dwelt beyond it.
  5. Ezra 4:10 Which were a certain people that envied the Jews.

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