Esdras 4:9

La Bible Ostervald

Réhum, gouverneur et Shimshaï, secrétaire, et les autres de leurs collègues, Diniens, Apharsathkiens, Tarpéliens, Arphasiens, Arkéviens, Babyloniens, Susankiens, Déhaviens, Élamites,

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Alors Rehum, chancelier, et Shimsha�, secr�taire, et le reste de leurs coll�gues, les Dinites, les Apharsathkites, les Tarpelites, les Apharsites, les Ark�vites, les Babyloniens, les Susankites, les D�haviens, les �lamites,

Louis Segond (1910)
Rehum, gouverneur, Schimscha�, secr�taire, et le reste de leurs coll�gues, ceux de Din, d'Arpharsathac, de Tharpel, d'Apharas, d'Erec, de Babylone, de Suse, de D�ha, d'Elam,

La Bible David Martin (1744)
R�hum Pr�sident du conseil, et Simsa� le Secr�taire, et les autres de leur compagnie, Diniens, Apharsatkiens, Tarp�liens, Arphasiens, Ark�viens, Babyloniens, Susankiens, D�haviens, [et] H�lamites;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

companions: Chal, societies

the Dinaites: 2 Kings 17:24, 2 Kings 17:30, 2 Kings 17:31

Apharsathchites: Ezra 5:6, Ezra 6:6, Apharsachites

Susanchites: Esther 1:2, Esther 2:3, Daniel 8:2

Elamites: Genesis 10:22, Isaiah 21:2, Jeremiah 25:25, Jeremiah 49:34, Ezekiel 32:24, Acts 2:9

Reciprocal: Ezra 4:7 - companions Ezra 4:8 - scribe Ezra 4:17 - companions Ezra 4:23 - Rehum Ezra 6:13 - Tatnai Nehemiah 4:2 - the army Isaiah 23:13 - the Assyrian

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions,.... who all signed the letter; namely, the governors of the following nations;

the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites; which were colonies from several parts of Chaldea, Media, and Persia, and were settled in the several cities of Samaria, as several of their names plainly show, as from Persia, Erech, Babylon, Shushan, and Elimais; some account for them all, but with uncertainty; according to R. Jose k these were the Samaritans who first were sent out of five nations, to whom the king of Assyria added four more, which together make the nine here mentioned, see 2 Kings 17:24.

k Pirke Eliezer, c. 38.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses form the superscription or address of the letter (Ezra 4:11, etc.) sent to Artaxerxes.

The Dinaites were probably colonists from Dayan, a country often mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as bordering on Cilicia and Cappadocia. No satisfactory explanation can be given of the name Apharsathchites (see Ezra 5:6 note). The Tarpelites were colonists from the nation which the Assyrians called Tuplai, the Greeks “Tibareni,” and the Hebrews generally “Tubal.” (It is characteristic of the later Hebrew language to insert the letter “r” (resh) before labials. Compare Darmesek for Dammesek, 2 Chronicles 28:23 margin). The Apharsites were probably “the Persians;” the Archevites, natives of Erech (Warka) Genesis 10:10; the Susanchites, colonists from Shushan or Susa; the Dehavites, colonists from the Persian tribe of the Dai; and the Elamites, colonists from Elam or Elymais, the country of which Susa was the capital.

Ezra 4:10

A snapper was perhaps the official employed by Esar-haddon Ezra 4:2 to settle the colonists in their new country.

On this side the river - literally, “beyond the river,” a phrase used of Palestine by Ezra, Nehemiah, and in the Book of Kings, as designating the region west of the Euphrates.

And at such a time - Rather, “and so forth.” The phrase is vague, nearly equivalent to the modern use of et cetaera. It recurs in marginal references.