Ezra 4:7

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A.M. 3482. B.C. 522. Artaxerxes.

This Artaxerxes was one of the Magi, who usurped the throne after the death of Cambyses, for seven months, feigning himself to be Smerdis, brother of Cambyses: he is called Oropoestus by Justin, Smerdis by Herodotus, Mardus by AEschylus, and Sphendatates by Ctesias. Bishlam. or, in peace. companions. Heb. societies.

Ezra 4:9; Ezra 4:17; Ezra 5:6

the Syrian tongue.

That is, probably, both the language and character were Syrian or Chaldaic; and therefore, from the 8th verse of this chapter, to Ezra 7:27, the original is not Hebrew, but Chaldee, in those parts which consist of letters, decrees, etc., originally written in that language.

2Kgs 18:26; Isa 36:11; Dan 2:4