Ezra 4:7-10
Read Ezra 4 in full →7And in the days of 1Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the 2text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated afrom Aramaic.
The Letter to King Artaxerxes
81Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows—
9then wrote Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and athe rest of their colleagues, the judges and bthe lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites, 10and the rest of the nations, which the great and honorable 1Osnappar took away into exile and settled in the city of Samaria and in the rest of the region beyond the 2River. aAnd now—