2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever ^hsince the days of ⁱEsarhaddon king of Assyria ^jwho brought us here.”

10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble ^tOsnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.