Discovery BoxEzra 4:10 
Context4:10 and the rest of nations whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal 1 deported and settled in the cities 2 of Samaria and other places in Trans-Euphrates. 3
Ezra 6:16
Context6:16 The people 4 of Israel – the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles 5 – observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy.
Ezra 7:18
Context7:18 You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues 6 with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.
Ezra 7:20
Context7:20 The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, 7 you may do so from the royal treasury.
1 tn Aram “Osnappar” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV), another name for Ashurbanipal.
sn Ashurbanipal succeeded his father Esarhaddon as king of Assyria in 669
2 tc The translation reads with the ancient versions the plural בְּקֻרְיַהּ (bÿquryah, “in the cities”) rather than the singular (“in the city”) of the MT.
3 tn Aram “beyond the river.” In Ezra this term is a technical designation for the region west of the Euphrates river.
4 tn Aram “sons of.”
5 tn Aram “sons of the exile.”
6 tn Aram “brothers.”
7 tn Aram “may fall to you to give.”
