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The Letter to King Artaxerxes

[a]Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows—

then wrote Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and (A)the rest of their colleagues, the judges and (B)the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

10 and the rest of the nations, which the great and honorable [b]Osnappar took away into exile and settled in the city of Samaria and in the rest of the region beyond the [c]River. (C)And now—

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:8 Ch 4:8-6:18 is in Aram
  2. Ezra 4:10 Probably Ashurbanipal
  3. Ezra 4:10 The Euphrates River, so in ch

Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:

Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary, together with the rest of their associates(A)—the judges, officials and administrators over the people from Persia, Uruk(B) and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,(C) 10 and the other people whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal(D) deported and settled in the city of Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates.(E)

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