So she wrote letters in Ach'av's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, [and] who lived with Navot.
They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar 1 brought over, and set in the city of Shomron, and in the rest [of the country] beyond the River, and so forth.
Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from you are come to us to Yerushalayim; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetar-Bozenai, and his companions the Afarsekhi, who were beyond the River, sent to Daryavesh the king;
Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artachshasta gave to Ezra the Kohen, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the mitzvot of the LORD, and of his statutes to Yisra'el:
The Shomroni woman therefore said to him, *How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Shomroni woman?* (For Jews have no dealings with Shomroni.)