Ezr 4:7-9 | ESV | STEP | In the days of Artaxerxes , Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia . The letter was written in Aramaic and translated .

Ezra 4:7-9

The Letter to King Artaxerxes

7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and ^aMithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written ^bin Aramaic and translated. ^{▼▼Hebrew written in Aramaic and translated in Aramaic, indicating that 4:8–6:18 is in Aramaic; another interpretation is The letter was written in the Aramaic script and set forth in the Aramaic language} 8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows: 9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the ^djudges, the ^egovernors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the ^fElamites,