OF Ahasuerus] It seems to be Xerxes. See Ezr. 4. 6. He was the sonne of Darius Hystaspis; his wife was called Amestris, a name not much unlike Esther. Others think that it was Darius his father, whose wife was Atossa, not much differing from Hadassa, chap. 2. 7. See Herodotus and Ctesis. an hundred and seven and twenty provinces] Belike the kingdom was enlarged since the first Darius his time. See Daniel 6:1.