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Artaxerxes

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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 M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 10 verses

Ezra
6:14, 7:1, 7:7, 7:11, 7:12, 7:21, 8:1
Nehemiah
2:1, 5:14, 13:6

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.