阻擾重建耶路撒冷

亞哈隨魯統治初期,他們寫信控告猶大和耶路撒冷的居民。

波斯王亞達薛西統治年間,比施蘭、米特利達、他別及其同黨上奏亞達薛西。奏章是用亞蘭文寫的,經過翻譯後呈上。 利宏省長和伸帥書記也寫了奏本給亞達薛西王,控告耶路撒冷人,內容如下:

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Later Opposition Under Xerxes and Artaxerxes

At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes,[a](A) they lodged an accusation against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.(B)

And in the days of Artaxerxes(C) king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. The letter was written in Aramaic script and in the Aramaic(D) language.[b][c]

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:6 Hebrew Ahasuerus
  2. Ezra 4:7 Or written in Aramaic and translated
  3. Ezra 4:7 The text of 4:8–6:18 is in Aramaic.