Esther 8:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Mordecai wrote in King Ahasuerus’s name and sealed the edicts with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers,  who rode fast horses  bred in the royal stables.

Cross References

Daniel 4:1

King Nebuchadnezzar, To those of every people, nation, and language, who live on the whole earth: May your prosperity increase.

Jeremiah 51:21

With you I will smash the horse and its rider; with you I will smash the chariot and its rider.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Look at your behaviour in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,

Isaiah 66:20

They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,’  says the Lord, ‘just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 60:6

Caravans of camels will cover your land   – young camels of Midian and Ephah – all of them will come from Sheba. They will carry gold and frankincense and proclaim the praises of the  Lord.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

For the king’s word is authoritative, and who can say to him, ‘What are you doing? ’

Job 9:25

My days fly by faster than a runner;  , they flee without seeing any good.

2 Chronicles 30:6

So the couriers  went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the hand of the king and his officials, and according to the king’s command, saying, ‘Israelites, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel so that he may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

1 Kings 21:8

So she wrote letters  in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal.  She sent the letters to the elders  and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

1 Kings 4:28

Each man brought the barley and the straw for the chariot teams and the other horses  to the required place according to his assignment.

Esther 8:8

Write in the king’s name whatever pleases you  concerning the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring.  A document written in the king’s name and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.’

Daniel 6:8

Therefore, Your Majesty, establish the edict  and sign the document so that, as a law of the Medes and Persians, it is irrevocable and cannot be changed.’