Ezr 4:8-9, 17 | ESV | STEP | Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows :

Ezra 4:8-9

8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows: 9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the ^ajudges, the ^bgovernors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the ^cElamites,

Ezra 4:17

The King Orders the Work to Cease

17 The king sent an answer: “To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now