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(A) (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(B) and the region west of the Euphrates River.(C)

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Footnotes

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

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