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.

5 And at the fulness of these days hath the king made to all the people who are found in Shushan the palace, from great even unto small, a banquet, seven days, in the court of the garden of the house of the king —

6 white linen, white cotton, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on rings of silver, and pillars of marble, couches of gold, and of silver, on a pavement of smaragdus, and white marble, and mother-of-pearl, and black marble —

Esther 1:4 in Other Translations