Ezra 4:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims

וּבְמַלְכוּת֙ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת מַלְכוּת֑וֹ כָּתְב֣וּ שִׂטְנָ֔ה עַל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִירוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Dimitri of Rostov

17th centuryChurch Father

Following Cyrus, his son Cambyses ascended to the throne, referred to as Asver (Assuir) and Artaxerxes (the first to bear this name) in chapter 4 of the First Book of Ezra. He issued a prohibition against the construction of the Lord's temple. The duration of Cambyses' reign is not recorded in Scripture.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Dan 9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:
Esth 1:1In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty seven provinces:
Matt 27:37And they put over his head his cause written: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Rev 12:10And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.
Acts 25:7Who being brought, the Jews stood about him, who were come down from Jerusalem, objecting many and grievious causes, which they could not prove:
Acts 24:5We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 24:9And the Jews also added and said that these things were so.
Acts 24:13Neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now accuse me.