20
If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.
21
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
22
Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
23
But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,
24
To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to expectation, or if any tidings were brought that were grievous, they of the land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not be troubled:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.