Ezra 4:2-10
4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders
1 and said to them, “Let us help you build,
2 for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him
3 from the time
4 of King Esarhaddon
5 of Assyria, who brought us here.”
6
4:3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right
7 to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the
Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”
4:4 Then the local people
8 began to discourage
9 the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.
4:5 They were hiring advisers to oppose them, so as to frustrate their plans, throughout the time
10 of King Cyrus of Persia until the reign of King Darius
11 of Persia.
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Official Complaints Are Lodged Against the Jews
4:6 13 At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus 14 they filed an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. 15
4:7 And during the reign 16 of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, 17 Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues 18 wrote to King Artaxerxes 19 of Persia. This letter 20 was first written in Aramaic but then translated.
[Aramaic:] 21
4:8 Rehum the commander 22 and Shimshai the scribe 23 wrote a letter concerning 24 Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
4:9 From 25 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues – the judges, the rulers, the officials, the secretaries, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, 26 the Elamites),
4:10 and the rest of nations whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal 27 deported and settled in the cities 28 of Samaria and other places in Trans-Euphrates. 29
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