Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
The Feast of Ahasuerus
Event · 518 BC
What the Bible Says
- “In the third year of his reign” Esther 1:3
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 518 BC
- “there followed an other of seven dayes long”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
