Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 4:9

9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellour, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites ,

Several people thus called from the several places of that vast Assyrian Empire, from whence they were fetched, and who were united together into one Body, and sent as one Colony by the Assyrian Monarchs into these parts.

Marginal references: Chald. soci [illegible: 1+ letters].