Esther 1:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:

⁶ And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

⁹ Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

³⁰ And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace,

¹ Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:

⁹ And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,

¹ Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;

¹ In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;