Ezra 4:10-12

English Standard Version Anglicised

¹⁰ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble ^(A)Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River. ¹¹ (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now ¹² be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are ^(B)finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.