1 Esdras 2:24-26

Wycliffe Bible

²⁴ Now therefore we make known to the lord [the] king, that if this city were built up, and the walls of it were areared, there shall be no coming down to thee into Celosyria and Phenice (or into Greater Syria and Phoenicia).

²⁵ Then the king wrote again to Rathymus, that wrote those things that befell, and to Beeltethmus, and to Semellius, the scribe, and to others ordained sovereigns and dwelling in Syria, and in Phenice (or in Phoenicia), [or to others ordained, and dwellers in Syria, and Phenice], he wrote to them these things that be set under.

²⁶ I have read the letter, that thou sentest to me. Therefore I commanded it to be sought; and it was found, that that city was always withstanding to kings,