Creation year 3437 · overlaps Nisan years 990–991 · Historical date 486 BC · Xerxes I
Persian chronology places Xerxes I after Darius I in 486 BC, or Creation year 3437. Identifying Esther’s Ahasuerus with Xerxes is the working historical view and remains clearly labeled as an identification.
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:) That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants;”
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