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Ezra 4:6-8
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More trouble for the Jews

6 When Xerxes became king of Persia, Judah's enemies wrote a letter to him.[a] They said that the people who lived in Jerusalem and the rest of Judah were doing a bad thing.

7 Later, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and their friends wrote a letter to him. They wrote it in the Aramaic language. People translated it for the king to understand. 8 Rehum, the city's ruler, and Shimshai, his officer, wrote this letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes. This is what it said:

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  1. 4:6 Xerxes was the son of King Darius. He was also called Ahasuerus. In this part of his book, Ezra is describing things that happened later, after the temple had been built. Now they were building the city's walls (verse 12).
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