Esther 10

¹ King Ahasuerus levied tribute from the continent and the islands of the sea.

² All his mighty acts of power and the account of the high honour to which he raised Mordecai, is not all this recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Media and Persia?

³ How ‘Mordecai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasuerus. He was a man held in respect among the Jews, esteemed by thousands of his brothers, a man who sought the good of his people and cared for the welfare of his entire race.’ And Mordecai said, ‘All this is God’s doing.