Creation year 3444 · Nisan calendar year 998 · Historical date about 479 BC · working identification · Esther
Esther becomes queen in Tebeth of Ahasuerus’s seventh year. The month places the event in Nisan year 998 and Creation year 3444 under the working Xerxes chronology.
King James Version
“So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.”
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