A Decree Makes the Men Stop Rebuilding

¹⁷ Then the king sent an edict to Rehum the commander, to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the River: “Peace. And now—

²⁵ Then Darius the king wrote to all the ^(A)peoples, nations, and men of every tongue who were inhabiting all the land: “^(B)May your ^[a]peace abound!