shimshai Rehum the chancellor and {Shimshai} the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: shimshai Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and {Shimshai} the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] th e Elamites, shimshai Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and [to] {Shimshai} the scribe, and [to] the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and [unto] the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time. shimshai Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter [was] read before Rehum, and {Shimshai} the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. ~~~~~~