Esther 1:1
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| Overview - Esther 1 | |
| 1 | Ahasuerus makes royal feasts. |
| 10 | Vashti, sent for, refuses to come. |
| 13 | Ahasuerus, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and makes the decree of men's sovereignty. |
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Esther 1:1 (King James Version)
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
- Ahasuerus
- Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the Septuagint and Josephus
- See note on Ezra 6:14 .
- Ezra 4:6 ; Daniel 9:1
- from India
- 8:9 Isaiah 18:1 ; 37:9
- an hundred
- Daniel 6:1