1In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces:


In Context

1 In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces:

2 When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the capital of his kingdom.

3 Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight,

Esther 1:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:1Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this [is] Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:1This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush :

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:1Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces),

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:1Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Cush, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1And it cometh to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus — he is Ahasuerus who is reigning from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:1Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even to Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)