Rehum the chief deputy and Shimshai the scribe(A) wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes concerning Jerusalem as follows:

From Rehum[a] the chief deputy, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues—the judges and magistrates[b] from Tripolis, Persia, Erech, Babylon, Susa(B) (that is, the people of Elam),[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:9 Lit Then Rehum
  2. Ezra 4:9 Or ambassadors
  3. Ezra 4:9 Aram obscure

Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:

Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary, together with the rest of their associates(A)—the judges, officials and administrators over the people from Persia, Uruk(B) and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,(C)

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36 They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates,(A) so that they would support the people and the house of God.(B)

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36 They also delivered the king’s orders(A) to the royal satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates,(B) who then gave assistance to the people and to the house of God.(C)

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