<page_title> Book of Ezra </page_title> <section_title> Historical background </section_title> <table> <cell> Artaxerxes I <col_header> King of Persia </col_header> </cell> <cell> 465–424 <col_header> Reign (BC) </col_header> </cell> <cell> Currently most widely accepted period for arrival of Ezra "in the seventh year of Artaxerxes" Second return of the exiles to Jerusalem (in 458 if the king is Artaxerxes I, or 428 if the year is read as his thirty-seventh instead of his seventh) 445–433 Nehemiah's mission (returns before the death of Artaxerxes) <col_header> Correlation with Ezra–Nehemiah </col_header> </cell> </table>
Artaxerxes I reigned during 465–424 BC and Ezra arrived in 458 and Nehemiah in 445 BC.