Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe,
and
the rest of their companions
who all signed the letter; namely, the governors of the following
nations;
the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the
Apharsites, the
Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the
Dehavites, and the
Elamites;
which were colonies from several parts of Chaldea, Media, and
Persia, and were settled in the several cities of Samaria, as
several of their names plainly show, as from Persia, Erech,
Babylon, Shushan, and Elimais; some account for them all, but
with uncertainty; according to R. Jose F11 these
were the Samaritans who first were sent out of five nations, to
whom the king of Assyria added four more, which together make the
nine here mentioned, see ( 2 Kings
17:24 ) .
F11 Pirke Eliezer, c. 38.
