² they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; ^(A)and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of ^(B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

¹⁰ and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable ^[a]Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the ^[b]River. ^(A)Now