30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews, to (A)the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

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The King Dethrones Queen Vashti

Now it came to pass in the days of (A)Ahasuerus[a] (this was the Ahasuerus who reigned (B)over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, (C)from India to Ethiopia),

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:1 Generally identified with Xerxes I (485–464 b.c.)

(A)So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces (B)from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all, to every province (C)in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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19 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

(A)‘The fast of the fourth month,
(B)The fast of the fifth,
(C)The fast of the seventh,
(D)And the fast of the tenth,
Shall be (E)joy and gladness and cheerful feasts
For the house of Judah.
(F)Therefore love truth and peace.’

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So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, (A)“The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “At least there will be peace and truth in my days.”

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