4:19 So I gave orders, 1 and it was determined 2 that this city from long ago has been engaging in insurrection against kings. It has continually engaged in 3 rebellion and revolt.
Ezra 7:26
7:26 Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely 4 liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”
1 tnAram “from me was placed a decree.”
2 tnAram “and they searched and found.”
3 tnAram “are being done.”
4 tn On the meaning of this word see HALOT 1820-21 s.v. אָסְפַּרְנָא; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 14.