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Ezra 4:17

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4:17 The king sent the following response:

“To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and other parts of Trans-Euphrates: Greetings! 1 

Ezra 5:5-6

Context
5:5 But God was watching over 2  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped 3  until a report could be dispatched 4  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

5:6 This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and his colleagues who were the officials of Trans-Euphrates sent to King Darius.

1 tn Aram “peace.”

2 tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

3 tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

4 tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.



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