Ezra 4:10
Konteks4:10 and the rest of nations whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal 1 deported and settled in the cities 2 of Samaria and other places in Trans-Euphrates. 3
Ezra 7:1
Konteks7:1 Now after these things had happened, during the reign of King Artaxerxes 4 of Persia, Ezra came up from Babylon. 5 Ezra was the son of Seraiah, who was the son of Azariah, who was the son of Hilkiah,
[4:10] 1 tn Aram “Osnappar” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV), another name for Ashurbanipal.
[4:10] sn Ashurbanipal succeeded his father Esarhaddon as king of Assyria in 669
[4:10] 2 tc The translation reads with the ancient versions the plural בְּקֻרְיַהּ (bÿquryah, “in the cities”) rather than the singular (“in the city”) of the MT.
[4:10] 3 tn Aram “beyond the river.” In Ezra this term is a technical designation for the region west of the Euphrates river.
[7:1] 4 sn If the Artaxerxes of Ezra 7:1 is Artaxerxes I Longimanus (ca. 464–423
[7:1] 5 tn The words “came up from Babylon” do not appear in the Hebrew text until v. 6. They have been supplied here for the sake of clarity.