1 Esdras 2:19 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Now if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not only refuse to pay tribute but will even resist kings.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

The king wrote back to the recorder Rehum, Beltethmus, the scribe Shimshai, and their associates living in Samaria, Syria, and Phoenicia, as follows:

If this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the people will stop paying taxes and will even rebel against royal authority.

Now if this city is built and its walls are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings.

If this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the people will stop paying taxes and will even rebel against royal authority.

Now if this city is built and its walls are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings.

Now if this city be builded and the walls thereof be finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings.

Naisc urraithe