Ezra 4:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶ We inform the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the result will be that you will have no dominion beyond the River.

To Rehum the commander, to Shimshai the scribe, to the rest of their companions who dwell in Samaria, and to the remainder beyond the River:

Peace, ^[a]and so forth.

¹⁸ The letter which you sent to us has been clearly read before me.