id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2974 Artaxerxes I - Wikipedia .html text/html 3516 752 72 Artaxerxes I (/ˌɑːrtəˈzɜːrksiːz/, Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂 Artaxšaça,[2] "whose rule (xšaça < *xšaϑram) is through arta ("truth");[3] Hebrew: אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא‎, Modern: ʾArtaḥšásta, Tiberian: ʾArtaḥšasetāʾ; Ancient Greek: Ἀρταξέρξης, romanized: Artaxérxēs[4]) was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, from 465 to 424 BC.[5] He was the third son of Xerxes I. Artaxerxes was probably born in the reign of his grandfather Darius I, to the emperor's son and heir, Xerxes I. A King Artaxerxes (Hebrew: אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא‎, pronounced [artaχʃast]) is described in the Bible as having commissioned Ezra, a kohen and scribe, by means of a letter of decree (see Cyrus's edict), to take charge of the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the Jewish nation. Ezra thereby left Babylon in the first month of the seventh year[14] of Artaxerxes' reign, at the head of a company of Jews that included priests and Levites. Artaxerxes III Ochus Artaxerxes III Ochus Tomb of Artaxerxes III Artaxerxes III Categories: 5th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2974.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2974.txt