² they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon^(A) king of Assyria, who brought us here.”^(B)

¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria,^(A) where he built Nineveh,^(B) Rehoboth Ir,^[a] Calah