Ezra 4:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

Artaxerxes

The Artaxerxes of (Ezra 4:7) is identical with Ahasuerus of (Ezra 4:6); that is, the Cambyses of profane history. The Artaxerxes of (Ezra 7:1) is the Longimanus of secular history, BC 418. But

( See Scofield) - (Daniel 5:31).

Ezra 4:7

7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam,c Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.