Esther 8:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The king’s secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Cush, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Chronicles 15:10

They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

Esther 1:1

This happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the same Ahasuerus who ruled over one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Cush.

Esther 1:22

he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.

Esther 10:1

King Ahasuerus laid tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.

Daniel 4:1

King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages that live throughout the earth: May you have abundant prosperity!

Daniel 6:1

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom,

Daniel 6:25

Then King Darius wrote to all peoples and nations of every language throughout the whole world: “May you have abundant prosperity!