Esther 10:1

And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

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In The King James Version

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

In Context

2And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

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Cross References

Esther 1:1Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

Psalms 72:10Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

Isaiah 24:15Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

Luke 2:1Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

Matthew Henry on Esther 10:1

This is but a part of a chapter; the rest of it, beginning at v. 4 , with six chapters more, being found only in the Greek, is rejected as apocryphal. In these three verses we have only some short hints, I. Concerning Ahasuerus in the throne, what a mighty prince he was, ver. 1, 2 . II. Concerning Mordecai his favourite, what a distinguished blessing he was to his people, ver. 2, 3 . Read the whole commentary →

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