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artaxerxes |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Artaxerxes the Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history. (2.) The king mentioned in Ezra 7:1, in the seventh year (B.C. 458) of whose reign Ezra led a second colony of Jews back to Jerusalem, was probably Longimanus, who reigned for forty years (B.C. 464-425); the grandson of Darius, who fourteen years later permitted Nehemiah to return and rebuild Jerusalem. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Artaxerxes, the silence of light; fervent to spoil
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