Esther 10:1

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¹ And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea. ² And 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?

Forced Labor

Ahasuerus

Isaiah 24:15

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

Psalm 72:10

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

Genesis 10:5

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

Esther 1:1

Now 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:)

Esther 8:9

Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

Isaiah 11:11

And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

Daniel 11:18

After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.

Luke 2:1

Now 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.