artaxerxes

Artaxerxes
    n 1: king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made
         peace with Sparta (?-359 BC) [syn: {Artaxerxes II},
         {Artaxerxes}]
    2: king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in
       Jerusalem (?-424 BC) [syn: {Artaxerxes I}, {Artaxerxes}]
    

Artaxerxes
the Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The
king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He
was probably the Smerdis of profane history.

  (2.) The king mentioned in Ezra 7:1, in the seventh year (B.C.
458) of whose reign Ezra led a second colony of Jews back to
Jerusalem, was probably Longimanus, who reigned for forty years
(B.C. 464-425); the grandson of Darius, who, fourteen years
later, permitted Nehemiah to return and rebuild Jerusalem.
    

Artaxerxes, the silence of light; fervent to spoil