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4 articles found for “Shimshai”

• Rehum and Shimshai

  Rehum and Shimshai were officials who served in the region of Samaria during the Persian period. According to Ezra 4, they sent a letter to King Artaxerxes accusing the Jews of rebuilding Jerusalem and thereby brought the work to a halt.

• Rehum

  Rehum was a Persian provincial official mentioned in Ezra 4. Together with Shimshai the scribe, he sent a letter to King Artaxerxes that brought the rebuilding work in Jerusalem to a halt.

• Artaxerxes

  Artaxerxes was a king of Persia who sent Ezra and Nehemiah to Jerusalem, authorizing the restoration of the Law and the rebuilding of the city walls. He appears in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

• Osnappar

  Osnappar is a figure mentioned only once, in Ezra 4:10, where he is described as the "great and noble" one who resettled various peoples in Samaria and in the land west of the Euphrates River. He is commonly identified with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.