XERXES zerks'-ez: The name is an attempt to transliterate into Greek (Xerxes) the Persian Khshayarsha. The same word in unpointed Hebrew took the for...
ARTAXERXES ar-taks-urk'-sez (Artaxerxes): Is the Greek and Latin form of one, and perhaps of two or three kings of Persia mentioned in the Old Testam...
Esther 1:2 That in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom Not only was placed upon it, but settled in it; after Xerxes h...
ESTHER es'-ter ('ecter, akin to the Zend tstara, the Sanskrit stri, the Greek aster, a star, Esther): Esther was a Jewish orphan, who became the quee...
Esther 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased Which went off with his wine, and so was quickly after, a few days at mos...
Nehemiah 13:6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem Nehemiah, who was absent all the while these things were done by Eliashib, or otherwise they...
Esther, Book of [S]The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of the Greeks)...
Daniel 11:2 And now will I show thee the truth And nothing but the truth; what will most certainly come to pass, and may be depended on, even what is ...
Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come that I will do judgment on the graven images of Babylon Because of the connection of these words, some...
Overview - Jeremiah 50 1?The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJeremiah 50:2??(King James Version)Decla...
Overview - Esther 3 1?Haman, advanced by the king, and despised by Mordecai, seeks revenge upon all the Jews. 7?He casts lots. 8?He obtains by calum...
Persia [N] [E] [H](pure, splended ), Persians. Persia proper was a tract of no very large dimensions on the Persian Gulf, which is still known as Far...
ABIHAIL ab'-i-hal ('abhichayil; in some manuscripts 'abhihayil, when feminine, but best reading is the former: father, or cause, of strength): Five p...
PERSIANS pur'-shanz, -zhanz (parac, also equals PERSIA, PERSIS (which see); adjective parci Hebrew, and parcay, Aramaic.; Persai, adjective only in Ne...
Darius [N] [H] [S]the holder or supporter, the name of several Persian kings. Darius the Mede ( Daniel 11:1 ), the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of t...
When one examines the historical record concerning the fall of the city of Babylon in 539 B.C. to Persia (Dan. Dan. 5:30-31), it is clear that the te...
Joel 1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee As well as the prophet, in their way; which may be mentioned, both as a rebuke to such who had no...
Ahasuerus [N] [H] [S]There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture. The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Daniel 9:1 . This was p...
Chapter 11: THE BOOKS OF EXILE {11}. We have now made mention of all the books of the Old Testament connected with events preceding the Babyl...
Daniel 11:3 And a mighty king shall stand up Not in Persia, but in Greece; Alexander the great, who rose up a hundred years after the above expedition...