Creation year 3440 · overlaps Nisan years 993–994 · Historical date about 483 BC · working identification · Ahasuerus
Esther dates the royal feast to Ahasuerus’s third year. Under the working Xerxes identification, it falls around 483 BC and Creation year 3440; no month is stated, so the precise Creation-year placement remains under review.
King James Version
“Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants;”
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