Artaxerxes

How To Use Artaxerxes In A Sentence

• (Darius Nothus) (423-404 B.C.), the younger _Cyrus_ undertook to dethrone his brother _Artaxerxes II_., and for that purpose organized, in Asia Outline of Universal History
• Darius II died at Babylon, and Artaxerxes II promoted in the city the worship of Anaitis. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
• The goddess Anahita, first mentioned in an inscription of Artaxerxes II, and described only in the late Fifth Yasht, appears to have been originally Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
• A new challenge arose when Bessus, who had withdrawn to his satrapy, proclaimed himself King of Kings under the regnal name Artaxerxes V.
• And Artaxerxes had heard something about a skirmish of ships near some island called Salamis, in which the king of Sidon had been embarrassed by certain Greek captains. The Battle of Salamis
• Tachos (360-359), his successor, attempted to invade the Syrian territory, but, as a result of rivalries and dissensions between himself and his namesake Tachos, whom he had appointed as regent, he was supplanted by Nectanebo II (358-342), a cousin of Tachos the regent, and took refuge with Artaxerxes II, at whose court he died. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
• For Israel, this "one who sees" was Nehemiah. Filled with sorrow over the broken and neglected state of his homeland, he asked King Artaxerxes for permission to return (Nehemiah 2:5).
• When Artaxerxes II, surnamed Ochus, invaded the Delta, Nectanebo II, King of Egypt, could find no safer refuge that Ethiopia, and in the days of the Ptolemies, one of its kings, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• Ezra's precious name saluted us, at first, in the title of the book, but in the history we have not met with it till this chapter introduces him into public action in another reign, that of Artaxerxes. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)