Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

Bible References

In the king

1 Kings 21:8
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.
Ecclesiastes 8:4
Since the word of the king is authoritative, who will say to him, “What are you doing?”
Daniel 4:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every language that live in all the earth: “May your peace abound!

By posts

Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.
2 Chronicles 30:6
The couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “O sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Job 9:25
“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.
Jeremiah 51:21
“With you I shatter the horse and his rider,
And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

Young dromedaries

Isaiah 60:6
“A multitude of camels will cover you,
The young camels of Midian and Ephah;
All those from Sheba will come;
They will bring gold and frankincense,
And will bear good news of the praises of the Lord.
Isaiah 66:20
Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way in the valley!
Know what you have done!
You are a swift young camel entangling her ways,