Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Esther 2:16
Tebeth (compare the corresponding Egyptian month, "Tobi" or "Tubi" ), corresponded nearly to our January.
In the seventh year of his reign - In December, 479 BC, or January, 478 BC Xerxes quitted Sardis for Susa in, or soon after, September, 479 BC It has been regarded as a "difficulty" that Vashti' s place, declared vacant in 483 BC, was not supplied until the end of 479 BC, four years afterward. But since two years out of the four had been occupied by the Grecian expedition, the objection cannot be considered very weighty.
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