Esther 8:9

New Century Version

At that time the king’s secretaries were called. This was the twenty-third day of the third month, which is Sivan. The secretaries wrote out all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, to the governors, to the captains of the soldiers in each state, and to the important men of the one hundred twenty-seven states that reached from India to Cush. They wrote in the writing of each state and in the language of each people. They also wrote to the Jewish people in their own writing and language.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to us in the Aramaic language. We understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew, because the people on the city wall can hear you.”

2 Chronicles 15:10

Asa and these people gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s rule.

Esther 1:1

This is what happened during the time of King Xerxes, the king who ruled the one hundred twenty-seven states from India to Cush.

Esther 1:22

He sent letters to all the states of the kingdom in the writing of each state and in the language of each group of people. These letters announced that each man was to be the ruler of his own family.

Esther 10:1

King Xerxes demanded taxes everywhere, even from the cities on the seacoast.

Daniel 4:1

King Nebuchadnezzar sent this letter to the people, nations, and those who speak every language in all the world: I wish you peace and great wealth!

Daniel 6:1

Darius thought it would be a good idea to choose one hundred twenty governors who would rule his kingdom.

Daniel 6:25

Then King Darius wrote a letter to all people and all nations, to those who spoke every language in the world: I wish you great peace and wealth.