⁹ Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the ^(A)judges, the ^(B)governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the ^(C)Elamites,

⁶ “Now therefore, ^(A)Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, ^(B)and your^[a] associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.

Tattenai's Letter to King Darius

⁶ This is a copy of the letter that ^(A)Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates, the ^(B)governors who were in the province Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.

Assyria Resettles Samaria

^24 (A)And the king of Assyria brought people from ^(B)Babylon, Cuthah, ^(C)Avva, ^(D)Hamath, and ^(E)Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

³⁰ The men of ^(A)Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, ³¹ and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites ^(B)burned their children in the fire to ^(C)Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of ^(D)Sepharvaim.

⁹ Parthians and ^(A)Medes and ^(B)Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

² And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in ^(A)Susa the citadel, which is in the province of ^(B)Elam. And ^(C)I saw in the vision, ^(D)and I was at the ^(E)Ulai canal.

^24 (A)“Elam is ^(B)there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them ^(C)slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into ^(D)the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and ^(E)they bear their shame ^(F)with those who go down to the pit.

Judgment on Elam

³⁴ The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning ^(A)Elam, in the beginning of the reign of ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah.