23 and that the Jews were rebellious, and kept starting wars there in the past. For this cause, this city was laid waste. (WEB) 24 Therefore now we do declare to you, O lord the king, that if this city is built again, and its walls set up again, you will from then on have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia.” (WEB) 25 Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the recorder, Beeltethmus, Samellius the scribe, and to the rest of their associates who lived in Samaria, Syria, and Phoenicia, as follows: (WEB)
1 Esdras 2:23–25
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