Ahasuerus
“prince; head; chief” Hitchcock's 18691 mention, all in Daniel
Who he was
This Ahasuerus is named once, as the father of Darius the Mede: “In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans” (Daniel 9:1). Nothing more is recorded about him. He is not the Persian king Ahasuerus of the book of Esther, probably Xerxes I: that king reigned after Cyrus and after Darius king of Persia (Ezra 4:5–6), whereas Darius the Mede was already about sixty-two years old when he received the kingdom after Belshazzar was slain (Daniel 5:30–31).
Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses
Every mention
1 reference, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Daniel 1 mention
Sources
- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · “Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes” (Daniel 9:1) is not Esther's Ahasuerus: Darius the Mede was about 62 when Babylon fell (Daniel 5:30-31), and Esther's king reigned after Cyrus and Darius of Persia (Ezra 4:5-6)
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain