10^*And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon ^athe isles of the sea. ²And all the acts of his ^bpower and of his might, and ^cthe declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, ^dwhereunto the king ^†advanced him, are they not written in ^ethe book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? ³For Mordecai the Jew was ^fnext unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and ^gaccepted of the multitude of his brethren, ^hseeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

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Footnotes

bch. 9:29 marg.
cch. 4:7 (Heb).
dch. 8:15. & 9:4.
†Heb. made him great. So ch. 3:1. & 5:11 in the Heb.
ech. 2:23. & 6:1.
fSo 2 Chr. 28:7 marg. Comp. Gen. 41:40.
hSo Neh. 2:10. Ps. 122:8, 9.

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*About B.C. 495?
a Isai. 11:11. & 24:15.
g Deut. 33:24.

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