1 Esdras 3:1-3

Common English Bible

Contest of the bodyguards

3 Now King Darius gave a great banquet for all his subjects, everyone born in his house, all the officials of Media and Persia, ² and all the chief administrators, generals, and district governors who were under him in the one hundred twenty-seven administrative districts from India to Ethiopia. ³ They ate and drank, and they left after they had enough. King Darius retired to his bedroom and went to sleep, but he eventually woke up again.