1 Esdras 2:15
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Opposition to Rebuilding Jerusalem
15 In the time of King Artaxerxes of the Persians, Bishlam, Mithridates, Tabeel, Rehum, Beltethmus, the scribe Shimshai, and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and other places wrote him the following letter, against those who were living in Judea and Jerusalem:(A)
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1 Esdras 2:16
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16 “To King Artaxerxes our lord, your servants the recorder Rehum and the scribe Shimshai and the other members of their council, and the judges in Coelesyria and Phoenicia:(A)
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1 Esdras 2:21
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21 Then the king, in reply to the recorder Rehum, Beltethmus, the scribe Shimshai, and the others associated with them and living in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, wrote as follows:(A)
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1 Esdras 5:6
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6 who spoke wise words before King Darius of the Persians, in the second year of his reign, in the month of Nisan, the first month.(A)
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