Ahasuerus in Biblical History

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Who is Ahasuerus?
AHASUE'RUS
(probably lion king), the Hebrew form of Xerxes, the name, or perhaps only the title, of one Median and two Persian kings mentioned in the Old Testament. 1. The father of Darius the Median, and the same with Astyages. Dan 9:1. 2. Supposed to be the son and successor of Cyrus, probably Cambyses, who reigned seven years and five months from b. c. 529.Ezr 4:6. 3. The husband of Esther, undoubtedly the Xerxes of profane history. Esth 1:1. The story of his acts of caprice and cruelty recorded in the book of Esther agrees exactly with what we otherwise know of his character, for once he scourged the sea and beheaded the engineers because a storm carried away their bridge, and was guilty of many other crimes. In the third year of his reign he called a council of his nobles, very likely for the purpose of arranging the invasion of Greece. The meeting lasted six months, and was followed by a munificent feast, on the seventh day of which he commanded his queen, Vashti, to show herself unto his drunken nobles. This she properly refused to do, where upon he deposed her. Four years after, he married Esther. The interval is accounted for by supposing the war with Greece intervened. See Esther.

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