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. 4:9 Lit Then Rehum
  2. 4:9 Or ambassadors
  3. 4:9 Aramaic obscure

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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