King Xerxes wished to sit upon the royal throne of Solomon, which had been carried away from

Jerusalem by Shishak, King of Egypt; and had been brought away from Egypt by Sennacherib; and had been captured out of the hands of Sennacherib by Hezekiah, and had been brought to Jerusalem; but had again been carried away from Jerusalem by Pharaoh the Lame, King of Egypt; and from Egypt had been carried away by Nebuchadnezzar, and had been brought to Babylon. When Cyrus devastated the province of Babylon, he transported it to Elam; and afterward, when Xerxes reigned, he tried to sit upon it, but was not able. Accordingly, he sent and brought artisans from Alexandria in order that they might make one like it, but they were notable. So they made another inferior to it; and after two years had been spent in its production, at length he sat upon his royal throne which the artisans had made for him.