People of the Bible
Ahasuerus
Family
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The son of Darius Hystaspes, the king named in the Book of Esther. He ruled over the kingdoms of Persia, Media, and Babylonia, “from India to Ethiopia.” This was in all probability the Xerxes of profane history, who succeeded his father Darius (B.C. 485). In the LXX. version of the Book of Esther the name Artaxerxes occurs for Ahasuerus. He reigned for twenty-one years (B.C. 486-465). He invaded Greece with an army, it is said, of more than 2,000,000 soldiers, only 5,000 of whom returned with him. Leonidas, with his famous 300, arrested his progress at the Pass of Thermopylae, and then he was defeated disastrously by Themistocles at Salamis. It was after his return from this invasion that Esther was chosen as his queen.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 29 verses
- Ezra
- 4:6
- Esther
- 1:1, 1:2, 1:9, 1:10, 1:15, 1:16, 1:17, 1:19, 2:1, 2:12, 2:16, 2:21, 3:1, 3:6, 3:7, 3:8, 3:12, 6:2, 7:5, 8:1, 8:7, 8:12, 9:2, 9:20, 9:30, 10:1, 10:3
- Daniel
- 9:1
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.