Esther 1:1

Easy To Read Version

This is what happened during the time that Xerxes was king. Xerxes ruled over the 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.

Cross References

Ezra 4:6

Those enemies even wrote letters to the king of Persia trying to stop the Jews. They wrote a letter the year that Xerxes {\cf2\super [15]} became the king of Persia.

Esther 10:1

King Xerxes made people pay taxes. All the people in the kingdom, even the faraway cities on the sea coast, had to pay taxes.

Esther 2:3

Let the king choose leaders in every province of his kingdom. Then let those leaders bring every beautiful young virgin to the capital city of Susa. Those girls will be put with the group of the king’s women. And they will be under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, that is in charge of the women. Then give beauty treatments to all of them.

Esther 8:9

Very quickly the king’s secretaries were called. This was done on the 23rd day of the third month, the month of Sivan. Those secretaries wrote out all of Mordecai’s commands to the Jews, and to the satraps (leaders), the governors, and officials of the 127 provinces. Those provinces reached from India to Ethiopia. Those commands were written in the language of each province. And they were translated into the language of each group of people. And those commands were written to the Jews in their own language and their own alphabet.

Esther 9:30

So Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of King Xerxes’ kingdom. Mordecai told the people that the holiday should bring peace and make people trust {\cf2\super [32]} each other.

Isaiah 18:1

Look at the land along the rivers of Ethiopia. {\cf2\super [183]} \{The land is filled with insects; you can hear\} their buzzing wings.

Daniel 11:2

“‘Now then, Daniel, I tell you the truth: three more kings will rule in Persia. Then a fourth king will come. That fourth king will be much richer than all the other kings of Persia before him. That fourth king will use his riches to get power. And he will cause everyone to be against the kingdom of Greece.

Daniel 6:1

Darius thought it would be a good idea to choose 120 satraps {\cf2\super [66]} to rule throughout all of his kingdom.

Daniel 9:1

These things happened during the first year that Darius was king. Darius was the son of a man named Ahasuerus. {\cf2\super [99]} Darius belonged to the Median people. He became king over Babylon.