AHASUERUS, or ARTAXERXES, the husband of Esther and, according to Archbishop Usher and F. Calmet, the Scripture name for Darius, the son of Hystaspes king of Persia. Scaliger supposed XERXES to have been the husband of Esther, or the Ahasuerus of Scripture: and Dr. Prideaux
believes him to be Artaxerxes Longimanus. See History of PERSIA, and ESTHER.