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Ester 1:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Palace;   Shushan (Susa);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Medo-Persian Kingdom;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chamberlain;   Shushan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Persia;   Susa (shushan);   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elam;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Castle;   Esther;   Shushan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abishua;   Achias;   Amariah;   Arna;   Aziei;   Borith;   Bukki;   Castle;   Esther, Book of;   Heli;   Marimoth;   Memeroth;   Meraioth;   Ozias;   Phinees;   Phinehas;   Zaraias;   Zerahiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baruch, Apocalypse of;   Sanhedrin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Vashti;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shushan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahasuerus;   Benaiah;   Esdras, Books of;   Gadara;   Ḳodashim;   Shushan;   Solomon;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 6;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
pada zaman raja Ahasyweros itu bersemayam di atas takhta kerajaannya di dalam kota Susan,

Contextual Overview

1 It came to passe that in the dayes of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus whiche raigned from India vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundred and twentie and seuen prouinces) 2 Euen in those dayes when the king Ahasuerus sate on his seate royall, which was in Susan the chiefe citie: 3 In the third yere of his raigne, he made a feast vnto all his princes & seruauntes: and the mightie men of Persia and Media, the captaynes also and rulers of his countreys were before hym. 4 And he shewed the richesse and glorie of his kingdome, and the glorious worship of his greatnesse many dayes long, [euen] an hundred and fourescore dayes. 5 And when these dayes were expired, the king made a feast vnto al the people that were in Susan the chiefe citie, both vnto great & small, seuen dayes long, in the court of the garden by the kinges palace. 6 Where there hanged white, greene, and yelowe clothes, fastened with cordes of fine silke and purple, in siluer ringes, vpon pillers of marble stones: The benches also were of golde and siluer made vpon a pauement of greene, white, yelowe, and blacke marble. 7 And they dranke in vessels of gold, and chaunged vessel after vessel, and royal wine in aboundaunce, according to the power of the king. 8 And the drinking was by an order, none might compell: for so the king had appoynted to all the officers of his house, that they shoulde do according to euery mans pleasure. 9 And the queene Uasthi made a feast also for the women in the palace of Ahasuerus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sat: 2 Samuel 7:1, 1 Kings 1:46, Daniel 4:4

Shushan: Esther 2:3, Esther 3:15, Esther 4:16, Esther 9:12-15, Nehemiah 1:1, Daniel 8:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:1 - General Ezra 4:9 - Susanchites Esther 2:5 - Shushan Esther 8:14 - Shushan Matthew 14:6 - birthday

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.
Genesis 1:14
And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the noorth ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.
Job 26:14
Lo, this is now a short summe of his wayes: but howe litle a portion heare we of hym? who can vnderstande the thunder of his power?
Psalms 33:6
By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lorde, Euen he that created heauen, the God that made the earth & fassioned it, and set it foorth, he dyd not make it for naught, but to be inhabited, euen I the Lorde, without whom there is none other.
Nahum 2:10
Sacking, resacking, rasing, a dissolued heart and collision of knees, sorow in all loynes also, and the faces of them all as blacke as a pot.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom,.... Not only was placed upon it, but settled in it; after Xerxes had subdued Egypt, in the second year of his reign e, and enjoyed great peace and tranquillity:

which was in Shushan the palace; that is, the throne of his kingdom was in Shushan, the royal city of the kings of Persia; of which

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e Herodot. ib. (Thalia, sive, l. 3.) c. 7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 1:2. Sat on the throne of his kingdom — Having subdued all his enemies, and brought universal peace to his empire. See the commencement of the introduction.

Shushan the palace — The ancient city of Susa, now called [Persian] Shuster by the Persians. This, with Ecbatana and Babylon, was a residence of the Persian kings. The word הבירה habbirah, which we render the palace, should be rendered the city, ενσουσοιςτηπολει, as in the Septuagint.


 
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