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 [a]Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the [b]River. (C)Now 11 this is the copy of the letter which they sent to him:

“To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men in the region beyond the River, and now

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:10 I.e. probably Ashurbanipal
  2. Ezra 4:10 I.e. Euphrates River, and so throughout the ch