shimshai Rehum the chancellor and {Shimshai} the scribe

wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this

sort:



shimshai Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and
{Shimshai}

the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the

Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites,
the

Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] th



e Elamites,



shimshai Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the

chancellor, and [to] {Shimshai} the scribe, and [to] the rest of

their companions that dwell in Samaria, and [unto] the rest
beyond

the river, Peace, and at such a time.



shimshai Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter

[was] read before Rehum, and {Shimshai} the scribe, and their

companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and

made them to cease by force and power.





















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