Rehum the chief deputy and Shimshai the scribe(A) wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes concerning Jerusalem as follows:

From Rehum[a] the chief deputy, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues—the judges and magistrates[b] from Tripolis, Persia, Erech, Babylon, Susa(B) (that is, the people of Elam),[c] 10 and the rest of the peoples whom the great and illustrious Ashurbanipal[d] deported and settled in the cities of Samaria(C) and the region west of the Euphrates River.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Lit Then Rehum
  2. 4:9 Or ambassadors
  3. 4:9 Aramaic obscure
  4. 4:10 Lit Osnappar

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)

Read full chapter

Artaxerxes’s Reply

17 The king sent a reply to his chief deputy Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates River:

Greetings.

Read full chapter

17 The king sent this reply:

To Rehum the commanding officer, Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates:(A)

Greetings.

Read full chapter