Ezra 6:6
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Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you other officials of that province, stay away from there.
Read Ezra 6:6 Using Other Translations
Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
"Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.
So King Darius sent this message: “Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province west of the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai, and your colleagues and other officials west of the Euphrates River—stay away from there!
What does Ezra 6:6 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Ezra 6:6
FOOTNOTES:
F26 Ibid. (Antiqu.) l. 11. c. 4. sect. 7.
Now therefore Tatnai, governor beyond the river
The river Euphrates, that side of it towards the land of Israel;
Josephus F26 calls this man master of the horse:
Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which
are beyond
the river, be ye far from thence;
keep at a distance from the Jews, and give them no disturbance,
nor interrupt them in their work of building of the temple, but
mind your own business and government.
F26 Ibid. (Antiqu.) l. 11. c. 4. sect. 7.
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