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Tatnai

TATNAI, or Thathanai, Governor of Samaria, and of the Provinces on this side Jordan. He opposed himself to the Undertaking of the Jews, who were for rebuilding the Temple and the Walls of Jerusalem. He wrote about it to Darius King of Persia, who gave Orders that they should go on with their Building, Ezr. v. vi. In the Year of the World 3485, before Christ 515, before the Vulgar Era 519.

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Tatnai,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/t/tatnai/.

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