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Shimshai

Shimshai was a scribe who, along with Rehum the commander, wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes opposing the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

The name Shimshai means “my son”

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Summary

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezra 4:8; only referred to as Shimshai (שִׁמְשַׁי).

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Shimshai

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  1. Ezra 4:8
    Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
  2. Ezra 4:9
    From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,
  3. Ezra 4:17
    Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
  4. Ezra 4:23
    When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.