Esther 10:1

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¹ And King Ahasuerus laid a tax on the land and on the isles of the sea. ² And all the acts of his power and of might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, with which the king made him great, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

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Ahasuerus

Isaiah 24:15

Therefore glorify Jehovah in the flames, the name of the Lord Jehovah of Israel in the coasts of the sea.

Psalm 72:10

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Genesis 10:5

By these were the coasts of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Esther 1:1

And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is the Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces).

Esther 8:9

Then the king's scribes were called at that time in the third month, the month Sivan, on the twenty-third of it. And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the lieutenants and the governors and rulers of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people in their writing, and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language.

Isaiah 11:11

And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall again set His hand, the second time, to recover the remnant of His people that remains, from Assyria and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Persia, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the coasts of the sea.

Daniel 11:18

And he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall capture many. But a ruler shall make cease his reproach for him, but his reproach will return to him.

Luke 2:1

And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.