Luke 19:25Open English Bible (US)

Esther 1:1

These events happened in the time of Ahasuerus, who ruled over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia

Esther 1:4

while for one hundred and eighty days he showed them the glorious riches of his kingdom and the costliness of his magnificent regalia.

Esther 6:13

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai before whom you have already been humiliated is of the Jewish people, you can do nothing against him but will surely fall before him.”

Esther 8:9

On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is the month of Sivan), the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Mordecai instructed an edict was issued to the Jews, to the satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia in their own script and their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

Esther 9:6

In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.