Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Artaxerxes - Gomates, the Pseudo-Smerdis. He succeeded Cambyses (521 BC), and reigned for seven months, when he was deposed and executed by Darius Hystaspis.
Written in the Syrian tongue ... - Or, "written in Syriac characters and translated into Syriac." On the use of this tongue as a medium of communication between the Jews and their Eastern neighbors, see II Kings 18:26 note.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezra 4:7:
Ezra 4:15
Ezra 5:3
Ezra 7:14
Nehemiah 2:10
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