20. May you⌃ and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven,
21. I remembered with affection your honor and good will toward me. Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all,
22. not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness.
23. But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,
24. to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they that remained in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled;