⁷ During the time of King Artaxerxes of Persia,^[a](A) Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his colleagues wrote to King Artaxerxes. The letter was written in Aramaic^(B) and translated.^[b][c]

¹⁴ So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo.^(A) They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus,^(B) Darius, and King Artaxerxes^(C) of Persia.

Nehemiah Sent to Jerusalem

2 During the month of Nisan^[a] in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,^(A) when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,