and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Sa
Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is d
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns