H0783B–אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא–ar.tach.shash.ta

Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king after this sort:

לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא (אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא) 'ar.tach.Shas.te' “Artaxerxes”

This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him: To Artaxerxes the king: Thy servants the men on this side the river, and so forth.

אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא 'ar.tach.Shas.te' “Artaxerxes”

As soon as the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them cease by force and power.

אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֣שְׂתְּ 'ar.tach.shas.te “Artaxerxes”

And the elders of the Jews built; and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and completed [ergänzt: it] according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

וְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא (אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא) 'ar.tach.Shas.te' “Artaxerxes”

Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, an accomplished scribe of the law of the God of the heavens, and so forth.

אַ֨רְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא 'ar.tach.Shast' “Artaxerxes”

And I, I Artaxerxes the king, do give orders to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest and scribe of the law of the God of the heavens shall require of you, it be done diligently,

אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֤סְתְּא 'ar.tach.Shast' “Artaxerxes”