OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 4:9

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Then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

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Verse 9. Counsellors. Septuagint and Syr. “of our fellow-servants.” Chal. “colleagues.” This letter, and as far as Calmet. 6:19, is in the Chaldee language.—Dinites, perhaps the Denarenians. Junius. 4 Kennicott. 17:24. Calmet.

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