Esther 8:9

So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the three and twentieth day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the + 8:9 Gr. stewards. local governors and chiefs of the satraps, from India even to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven satraps, according to the several provinces, according to their dialects.

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In The King James Version

Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

In Context

8Write you⌃ also in my name, as it seems good to you, and seal it with my ring: for whatever orders are written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, it is not + 8:8 Or, possible lawful to gainsay them.

10And they were written by order of the king, and sealed with his ring, and they sent the letters by the posts:

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:10And they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

Esther 1:22and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, + 1:22 Gr. that there might be fear to them, etc. in order that men might be feared in their own houses.

Esther 10:1And the king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea.

Daniel 6:1And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;

Matthew Henry on Esther 8:4-15

The Jews Encouraged to Self-Defence. ( b. c. 510.) 3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. 4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king, 5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be… Read the whole commentary →

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