Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, Books XI–XX

William Whiston (1737) · Translated text

BOOK XI. Containing The Interval Of Two Hundred And Fifty-Three Years And Five Months.—From The First Of Cyrus To The Death Of Alexander The Great. — CHAPTER 4. How The Temple Was Built While The Cutheans Endeavored In Vain To Obstruct The Work. (part 2)

carried to the governors and council of Samaria; the contents of which epistle were these:

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"King Darius to Tanganas and Sambabas, the governors of the Sainaritans, to Sadraces and Bobelo, and the rest of their fellow servants that are in Samaria: Zorobabel, Ananias, and Mordecai, the ambassadors of the Jews, complain of you, that you obstruct them in the building of the temple, and do not supply them with the expenses which I commanded you to do for the offering their sacrifices. My will therefore is this, That upon the reading of this epistle, you supply them with whatsoever they want for their sacrifices, and that out of the royal treasury, of the tributes of Samaria, as the priest shall desire, that they may not leave off offering their daily sacrifices, nor praying to God for me and the Persians."

And these were the contents of that epistle.

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