A Persian king during the time of Ezra and Esther.
About Artaxerxes
Name of three kings of the Persian Empire.
Artaxerxes I was king from 465 to 424 BC. He was known as Macrocheir or Longimanus, son and successor of Xerxes I, who was king from 486 to 465 BC. Xerxes I was the Ahasuerus of the book of Esther and Ezra 4:6.
Key References
At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, an accusation was lodged against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.
This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
All Scripture References (4)
Ezra (4)
And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.