4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
5 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Dari´us king of Persia.
6 And in the reign of Ahasue´rus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7 And in the days of Artaxerx´es wrote Bishlam, Mith´redath, Tab´eel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerx´es king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
8 Rehum the chancellor and Shim´shai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerx´es the king in this sort:
9 then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shim´shai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Di´na-ites, the Aphar-sath´chites, the Tar´pelites, the Aphar´sites, the Ar´chevites, the Babylonians, the Su´sanchites, the De´havites, and the E´lamites,
10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnap´per brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.