Ezra 4
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezra 4:7-9

7And in the days of 1Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the 2text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated 3from Aramaic.

84Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows--

9then wrote Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and 5the rest of their colleagues, the judges and 6the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezra 4:7 Heb Artah-shashta ↩
  2. 2. Ezra 4:7 Lit writing ↩
  3. 3. Ezra 4:7 2 Kin 18:26; Dan 2:4 ↩
  4. 4. Ezra 4:8 Ch 4:8-6:18 is in Aram ↩
  5. 5. Ezra 4:9 2 Kin 17:24 ↩
  6. 6. Ezra 4:9 Ezra 5:6; 6:6 ↩

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