² they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever ^(A)since the days of ^(B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria ^(C)who brought us here.”

¹⁰ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble ^(A)Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.