And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of YY came unto Zkharyah-yahu in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
And there went up some of the children of Yisrael, and of the kohanim, and the Lvim, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Yerushalayim, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
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.
Then all the men of Yhudah and Binyamin gathered themselves together unto Yerushalayim within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of Elohim, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Yhudah, 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 the bread of the governor.