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And the elders: Ezr 3:8, Ezr 4:3 through: Ezr 5:1, Ezr 5:2; Hag 1:12-14, Hag 2:2-15; Zech. 2:1-4:14, Zac 6:1-15 finished it: Zac 4:9 according: Isa 44:28; Hag 1:8 commandment: Chal, decree Cyrus: Ezr 6:13, Ezr 1:1-4, Ezr 4:24, Ezr 5:13 Artaxerxes: This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed Μακροχειρ, or Longimanus, or in Persian, Ardsheer deeraz dest, "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, am 3540, bc 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition. Ezr 7:1 Ezra 6:15

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