2in those days, at the sitting of the king Ahasuerus on the throne of his kingdom, that is in Shushan the palace,


In Context

1 And 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 —

2 in those days, at the sitting of the king Ahasuerus on the throne of his kingdom, that is in Shushan the palace,

3 in the third year of his reign, he hath made a banquet to all his heads and his servants; of the force of Persia and Media, the chiefs and heads of the provinces are before him,

4 in his shewing the wealth of the honour of his kingdom, and the glory of the beauty of his greatness, many days — eighty and a hundred days.

Esther 1:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:2[That] in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which [was] in Shushan the palace,

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:2At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the fortress,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:2When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the capital of his kingdom.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:2that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:2that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:2That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,