Esther 8:9

The Scriptures 2009

So the sovereign’s scribes were called at that time, in the third new moon, which is the new moon of Siwan, on the twenty-third day. And it was written, according to all that Mordeḵai commanded to the Yehuḏim, and to the viceroys, and the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Kush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own writing, to every people in their own language, and to the Yehuḏim in their own writing, and in their own language.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:26

Then said Elyaqim son of Ḥilqiyahu, and Sheḇnah, and Yo’aḥ to the Raḇshaqĕh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. And do not speak to us in the language of Yehuḏah, in the ears of the people on the wall.”

2 Chronicles 15:10

And they gathered together at Yerushalayim in the third new moon, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

Esther 1:1

And it came to be in the days of Aḥashwĕrosh – he is the Aḥashwĕrosh who reigned from India to Kush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces –

Esther 1:22

So he sent letters to all the sovereign’s provinces, to each province in its own writing, and to every people in their own language, that each man should be master in his own house and speak in the language of his people.

Esther 10:1

And Sovereign Aḥashwĕrosh laid compulsory labour on the land and the islands of the sea.

Daniel 4:1

Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign, to all peoples, nations and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be increased to you.

Daniel 6:1

It pleased Dareyawesh to appoint over the reign one hundred and twenty viceroys, to be over all the reign,

Daniel 6:25

Then Sovereign Dareyawesh wrote to all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be increased to you.