Ahasuerus] Heb. Aashveresh. Some think it was Cambises. Cyrus his son: or Xerxes, called in Greek Oxuares, or Xerxes, who succeeded Darius the son of Hystaspes. wrote they unto him] Now they openly opposed them, and wrote against them, though it be not set down in particular what they writ in Ahasuerus his time.