Consequently, according to this interpretation, the first year of Artaxerxes I according to Jewish reckoning lasted from the fall of 464 B.C. to the fall of 463, and the seventh year of Artaxerxes was the year beginning in the fall of 458 B.C.

February 25, 2026 - A King Artaxerxes is described in the Bible (Ezra 7) as having commissioned Ezra, a kohen and scribe, by means of a letter of decree, to take charge of the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the Jewish nation. Ezra thereby left Babylon in the first month of the seventh year of Artaxerxes' reign, at the head of a company of Jews that included priests and Levites.

In addition, the attempt has been made frequently to place Ezra's journey and reforms in the reign of Artaxerxes II.; but all such endeavors are critically untenable (compare Meyer, "Entstehung des Judenthums," l896). In the seventh year of Artaxerxes I. (458 · B.C.) the Babylonian Jews requested ...

A chronology of the regnal years of Artaxerxes I Longhand establishing his accession year as 464 B.C. and his 7th regnal year as 458 B.C. in which he issued a decree to Ezra to return and see about Jerusalem (Ezra 7:8-14) marking the beginning of Daniel's 69 Weeks (Daniel 9:25).

After the initial resettlement in the reign of Cyrus, the next two milestones in the repatriation of the Jews were the arrival of Ezra with another company of exiles under a decree of Artaxerxes (important for the period of the 70 weeks) in the 7th year of that king and the coming of Nehemiah in the 20th year.

This coincides with his actions during the seventh year of his reign (468 B.C.E.), when Longimanus granted Ezra “all his request” in a decree that provided for silver and gold and vessels for temple use (gifts that totaled some $4,946,000 at modern values), in addition to provisions of ...

November 21, 2025 - The generally accepted date of ... gives 42 years, Diodorus 40. The chronology is complicated by the brief and officially unrecognized reigns of Artapanus before, and of Xerxes II and Sogdianus after his own. Under Artaxerxes I the situation of the Jews in Israel considerably improved. The king appointed the orthodox scribe Ezra as a sort of court official for Jewish affairs. In the seventh regnal year ...

January 21, 2026 - In 536 BC, when the first Jews ... even to King Artaxerxes’ reign (Ezra 4:5–6). At that time, dissenters by the names of Bishlam, Mithredath, and Tabeel wrote a letter to Artaxerxes, leveling accusations against the Jews and claiming that ...

Therefore, in making Ezra overlap Nehemiah, the Chronicler intended to place Ezra also in the same reign. Ezra came to Jerusalem in 458 b.c., i.e. the seventh year of Artaxerxes I (Ezra 7:7), and Nehemiah in 445 b.c., i.e.

(Ezr 7:1-7; Ne 2:1, 7, 8) Ancient historians credit him with a generally benign and generous personality. This coincides with his actions during the seventh year of his reign (468 B.C.E.), when Longimanus granted Ezra “all his request” in a decree that provided for silver, gold, and vessels ...

So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.

First, however, a general observation. On page 32 of Parker and Dubberstein’s Babylonian Chronology: 626 B.C.–A.D. 75, they peg the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes I as beginning on Nisan 1, 458 BC—the Julian date April 8 in the spring.

July 31, 2025 - The references are generally agreed by conservative scholars to pertain to Artaxerxes I Longimanus, son of Xerxes I (Ahasuerus), who reigned from 465 to 424 B.C.E. According to Ezra 7:7, in the seventh year of his reign (458 B.C.E.), Ezra was ...

July 20, 1998 - Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors ... an advanced degree.... ... Artaxerxes I (died 425 bc, Susa, Elam [now in Iran]) was an Achaemenid king of Persia who reigned from 465–425 bc....

In the last half of 465 BC, Xerxes' son, Artaxerxes, became king. His 'accession year' would have lasted until 29th Adar(March) 464 BC when the Persian calendar year ended, then his first full year would have been, by Persian reckoning, 1st Nisan 464 to 29th Adar 463.

In the seventh year of his reign, Artaxerxes allowed Ezra the priest to take as many Israelites as he wished back to Jerusalem, even providing gold and silver for the people to purchase offerings and whatever else was needed for the temple (Ezra ...

This was the 7th year of Artaxerxes according to Jewish reckoning.

We return now to the book of Ezra. The events of Ezra 6 occurred during the reign of Darius the Great. Chapter 7 jumps forward to the reign of his grandson Artaxerxes I, also known as Longimanus (464-424 B.C.). It was between these two chapters that the events of the book of Esther took ...

Reckoning Ezra's "seventh year of Artaxerxes" by the spring-to-spring calendar, for instance, places his dates for the carrying out of Artaxerxes' decree in 458 B.C and the climax of the 2300 day prophecy in A.D.

2 weeks ago - Later, he allowed it to continue.[1] During the seventh year of his reign, he allowed Ezra and a large number of Israelites to return to Jerusalem.[2] Then in his twenty-first year he allowed Nehemiah to return to Jerusalem, and to rebuild the ...