artaxerxes And in the days of {Artaxerxes} wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter [was] written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongu e. artaxerxes And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto {Artaxerxes} king of Persia; and the writing of the letter [was] written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongu e. artaxerxes Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to {Artaxerxes} the king in this sort: artaxerxes This [is] the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, [even] unto {Artaxerxes} the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time. artaxerxes Now when the copy of king {Artaxerxes}' letter [was] read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. artaxerxes And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished [it], according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and {Artaxerxes} king of Persia. artaxerxes Now after these things, in the reign of {Artaxerxes} king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, artaxerxes And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of {Artaxerxes} the king. artaxerxes Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king {Artaxerxes} gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even] a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel. artaxerxes {Artaxerxes}, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect [peace], and at such a time. artaxerxes And I, [even] I {Artaxerxes} the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which [are] beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily, artaxerxes These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of {Artaxerxes} the king. artaxerxes And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of {Artaxerxes} the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence. artaxerxes Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of {Artaxerxes} the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten t he bread of the governor. artaxerxes But in all this [time] was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of {Artaxerxes} king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king: ~~~~~~