Esther 1:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ After these things, in the days of Artaxerxes the same who reigned from India, over a hundred and twenty seven provinces,

⁶ In the reign of Assuerus, even in the beginning of his reign, they wrote a letter against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.

⁹ So the secretaries were convened in the first month which is Nisan, on the three and twentieth day thereof in the same year, and a letter was written to the Jews reciting all that had been given in charge to the lieutenants and to the chief governors of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty seven provinces, to every province as they could read it,

³⁰ [Omitted]

¹ Ah! wings of the land of ships! Thou who surpassest the Ethiopian streams,

⁹ and Thoraka king of the Ethiopians came out to give him battle. Upon hearing this, he retreated, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

¹ It having seemed good in the sight of Darius, he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps to be governors of provinces throughout his whole dominion;

¹ In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,