page_title: Ahasuerus
section_title: Book of Ezra
hierarchical_section_title: Ahasuerus / Biblical references / Book of Ezra
context_page_description: Ahasuerus is a name applied in the Hebrew Bible to three rulers and to a Babylonian official in the Book of Tobit.
context_section_description: Ahasuerus is also given as the name of a King of Persia in the Book of Ezra. Modern commentators associate him with Xerxes I who reigned from 486 BC until 465 BC. Other identifications have been made for Cambyses II or with Bardiya (Greek Smerdis) who reigned (perhaps as an imposter) for seven months between Cambyses II and Darius I.
caption: Ahasuerus and Haman at Esther's Feast, by Rembrandt
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