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Esdras 4:8
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Rehum, chancelier, et Shimshaï, secrétaire, écrivirent une lettre contre Jérusalem au roi Artaxerxès, en ces termes.
Rehum, gouverneur, et Schimschaï, secrétaire écrivirent au roi Artaxerxès la lettre suivante concernant Jérusalem:
Réhum donc, Président du conseil, et Simsaï, le Secrétaire, écrivirent une Lettre touchant Jérusalem au Roi Artaxerxes, comme il s'ensuit.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
scribe: or, secretary, Ezra 4:9, 2 Samuel 8:17, 2 Samuel 20:25, 2 Kings 18:18
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:8 - she wrote Ezra 2:2 - Rehum Ezra 4:7 - the Syrian tongue Ezra 4:23 - Rehum
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort. This means the same letter as before; which, according to Jarchi, was sent in the name of Mithredath Tabeel and his company, was endited by Rehum, master of words or sense, and written by Shimshai the scribe, whom he makes to be a son of Haman i; but it was written rather in all their names.
i So Midrash Esther, fol. 85. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The chancellor - literally, “Lord of judgment;†the title, apparently, of the Persian governor of the Samaritan province. Every Persian governor was accompanied to his province by a “royal scribe†or “secretary,†who had a separate and independent authority.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezra 4:8. Rehum the chancellor — With this verse the Chaldee part of the chapter begins; and the same language continues to the end of Ezra 6:18. These men wrote to Darius in their own language; and the king in the same dialect returns an answer, chap. v. This circumstance adds authenticity to what is written: so scrupulous was the inspired penman, that he not only gave the words which each spoke and wrote, but he gave them also in the very language in which they were conceived and in the character peculiar to that language.
