4:7. Twenty-one years later Artaxerxes assumed the Persian throne. Some time during his reign another charge against the Jews entered the official records. Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. The contents of the letter were omitted from the biblical text. At some point another complaint was lodged. In this case the writer included excerpts from official documents, noting that the letter was written in Aramaic,