Ezra 4:8-10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
8 Rehum the chief deputy and Shimshai the scribe(A) wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes concerning Jerusalem as follows:
9 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] 10 and the rest of the peoples whom the great and illustrious Ashurbanipal[d] deported and settled in the cities of Samaria(C) and the region west of the Euphrates River.(D)
Ezra 4:17
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Artaxerxes’ Reply
17 The king sent a reply to his chief deputy Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates River:
Greetings.
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