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Chap. IIII.
The Schismatical Samaritanes, because they are not admitted to communicate
with the Iewes, endeuour to hinder the building of the Temple. 5. which
neuertheles procedeth, al the dayes of king Cyrus. 7. but is hundered by
Artaxerxes, til the second yeare of Darius.
1 Bvt the enemies of Iuda and Beniamin heard that the
children of the captiuitie built a temple to our Lord the
God of Israel.
2 And coming to Zorobabel, and the princes
of the fathers, they sayd to them: Let vs build with you, because
noteeuen as you, so do we seeke your God: Behold we haue
immolated victimes from the dayes of Asor Haddan the king
of Assur, which brought vs hither.
3 And Zorobabel sayd to
them, and Iosue, and the rest of the princes of the fathers of
Israel: It is not for you and vs to build a house to our God,
but we our selues alone wil build to the Lord our God, as
Cyrus the king of the Persians hath c&obar;manded vs.
4 It came
to passe therfore that the people of the land hindred the
handes of the people of Iuda, and trubled them in building.
5 And they hyred counselers agaynst them, to destroy theyr
counsel al the dayes of Cyrus the king of the Persians, & vntil
the reigne of Darius the king of the Persians
6 And in the
reigne of Assuerus in the begining of his reigne, they wrote
an accusation against the inhabitantes of Iuda and Ierusalem.
7 And in the dayes of Artaxerxes Beselam, Mitridates, & Thabeel,
& the rest that were in theyr counsel writ to Artaxerxes
king of the Persians: and the epistle of the accusation was
writen in Syriake, and was read in the Sirian language.
8 Reum Beelteem, and Samsai scribe wrote one epistle from
Ierusalem to Artaxerxes the king, of this tenure:
9 Reum
Beelteem, and Samsai scribe, and the rest of their counselers,
the Dineites, and the Apharsathaceites, the Terphaleites, the
the Apharseites, the Erchueites, the Babylonians, the Susanecheites,
the Dieuites, and the Aelamites,
10 and the rest
of the Gentiles, which Asenaphar the great and glorious
transported: and made them dwel in the cities of Samaria,
and in the rest of the countries beyond the Riuer in peace:
11 (this is the copie of the epistle, which they sent to him)
To Artaxerxes the king, thy seruantes, the men that are beyond
the Riuer, send greeting.
12 Be it knowen to the king,
that the Iewes, which came vp from thee to vs, are come into
-- --
Artaxerxes.
Ierusalem a rebellious and naughtie citie, which they build
making the rampyres thereof, and repayring the walles.
13 Now therfore be it knowen to the king, that if that citie
shal be built, and the walles therof repayred, they will not
geue tribute, and tolle, & yearly rentes, and this damage wil
come euen to the kinges.
14 But we mindful of the salt that
we haue eaten in the palace, and because we count it heynous
to see the kings harmes, therfore we haue sent and certified
the king,
15 that thou recount in the bookes of the histories
of thy fathers, and thou shalt finde writen in the commentaries:
and shalt know that that citie is a rebellious citie, and
hurtful to the kinges, and prouinces, and battels are raysed
in it of old time: for the which cause also the citie it selfe was
destroyed.
16 We certifie the king, that if that citie shal be
built, and the walles therof repayred, thou shalt haue no possession
beyond the Riuer.
17 The king sent word to Reum
Beelteem, and Samsai scribe, and to the rest that were in their
counsel inhabitantes of Samaria, and to the rest beyond the
Riuer, sending greeting and peace.
18 The accusation, which
you haue sent to vs, was openly read before me.
19 and I gaue
commandment: and they recounted, and haue found, that
that citie of old time rebelleth agaynst the kinges, and seditions
and battels are raysed in it.
20 For there haue beene also
most valiant kinges in Ierusalem, which also had dominion
ouer al the countrie, that is beyond the Riuer. They tooke
also tribute, and tolle, and rentes.
21 Now therfore heare the
sentence: Prohibite ye those men, that that citie be not
built, til it perhaps shal be commanded by me.
22 See that
you doe not negligently accomplish this thing, and by litle
there grow euil agaynst the kinges.
23 Therfore the copie of
the edict of Artaxerxes the king was read before Reum Beelteem,
and Samsai the scribe, and their counselers: and they
went in hast into Ierusalem to the Iewes, & prohibited them
with arme and strength.
24 Then was the worke of the house
of our Lord in Ierusalem intermitted, and was not done vntil
the second yeare of the reigne of Darius the king of the
Persians.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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