Ezra 4:16-18

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁶ We inform the king that if that city is rebuilt and the walls finished, as a result you will have no possession in the province beyond the River.”

The King Replies and Work Stops

¹⁷ Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the commander, to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the River: “Peace. And now ¹⁸ the document which you sent to us has been ^[a](A)translated and read before me.