Ahasuerus
(Persian: خشایارشا Khashayarsha,Hebrew: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Modern
Aẖashverosh Tiberian ʼĂḥašwērôš; Greek: Ασουηρος Asouēros in
the Septuagint; Latin: Xerxes or Assuerus in the Vulgate;
commonly transliterated Achashverosh) is a name used several
times in the Hebrew Bible, as well as related legends and
Apocrypha. This name (or title) is applied i...
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Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of
the first month, and there was written according to all that
Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the
governors that [were] over every province, and to the rulers
of every people of every province according to the writing
thereof, and [to] every people after their ...
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In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth
year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot,
before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to]
the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar....
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And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people
scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the
provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from
all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it
[is] not for the king's profit to suffer them....
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Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king
Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to
the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their
purifications accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of
myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with [other]
things for the purifying of the women;)...
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And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti
the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to
all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus....
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1. King of Persia, history of
See BOOK OF ESTHER
Es 1
-2. AHASUERUS
See ARTAXERXES
-3. Father of Darius
Da 9:1...
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(lion-king), the name of one Median and two Persian kings
mentioned in the Old Testament.
1. In Da 9:1 Ahasuerus is said to be the father of
Darius the Mede. [DARIUS] This first Ahasuerus is Cyaxares,
the conqueror of Nineveh. (Began to reign B.C. 634.)
2. The Ahasuerus king of Persia, referred to in Ezr
4:6 must be Cambyses, thought to be Cy...
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There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture.
(1.)
The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan.
9:1. This was
probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in
profane history,
the king of Media and the conqueror of Nineveh.
(2.) The king mentioned in Ezra 4:6, probably the
Cambyses of
profane history, the son and successor ...
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