Ezra 4:18
The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.
BSB
ASV
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
KJV
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
The letter which ye sent unto us,.... The plural number is used, being now become courtly for kings thus to speak of themselves: hath been plainly before me; by such that understood both the Syrian and Persian languages; the letter was written in the Syrian language, and the king being a Persian, it was necessary it should be interpreted and explained to him.
Hath been ... read - It is doubtful if the Persian monarchs could ordinarily read. At any rate, it was their habit to have documents read to them (compare Est 6:1). This is still the ordinary practice in Eastern courts.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Nehemiah 8:8So they read from the Book of the Law of God, explaining it and giving insight, so that the people could understand what was being read.
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Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
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As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.