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Esther 1:1–2

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The King’s Banquets

1Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned afrom India to Ethiopia over b127 provinces, 2in those days when King Ahasuerus csat on his royal throne in dSusa, the citadel,

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Cross references

  1. ach. 8:9
  2. bch. 8:9; 9:30; [Dan. 6:1]
  3. c1 Kgs. 1:46
  4. dSee Neh. 1:1

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus, who ruled 127 provinces from India to Cush. In those days King Ahasuerus reigned from his royal throne in the fortress at Susa.

NLTNew Living Translation

These events happened in the days of King Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia. At that time Xerxes ruled his empire from his royal throne at the fortress of Susa.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush—over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces. In those days as King Ahasuerus was sitting on the throne of his kingdom, which was in the citadel of Susa,

KJV 1900King James Version

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,