Esther 10:1

Esther 10:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
• New International Version (NIV)King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores.
• English Standard Version (ESV)King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And King Ahasuerus imposed tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.

Context of Esther 10:1

And king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and the isles of the sea. 2And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 3For Mordecai the Jew was second to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the welfare of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

Esther 10:1 word by word

וַיָּשֶׂם֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֧וֹשׁ מַ֛ס עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְאִיֵּ֥י הַיָּֽם׃Read the interlinear

• kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• Ahasuerusאֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ'ăchashvêrôsh 'achashrôsh · AhasuerusH325
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• seaיָםyâm · seaH3220

Cross-references for Esther 10:1

• Esther 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),
• Esther 8:9Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors, and the princes of the provinces which are from India even to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language, and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language.
• Luke 2:1But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.
• Genesis 10:5From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
• Psalms 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer tribute:
• Isaiah 24:15Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.
• Daniel 11:18And he shall turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many; but a captain for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease: he shall turn it upon him, without reproach for himself.

Commentaries on Esther 10:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Laid a tribute upon the land - On the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of which we have already heard. The isles of the sea - Probably the isles of the Aegean sea, which were conquered by Darius Hystaspes. Calmet supposes that this Hystaspes is the Ahasuerus of Esther.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1A tribute - Perhaps an allusion to some fresh arrangement of the tribute likely to have followed on the return of Xerxes from Greece. Upon the isles of the sea - Cyprus, Aradus, the island of Tyre, Platea, etc., remained in the hands of the Persians after the victories of the Greeks, and may be the “isles” here intended.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Greatness of Ahasuerus--Mordecai's advancement. --Many instances of the grandeur of Ahasuerus might have been given: these were written in the Persian chronicles, which are long since lost, while the sacred writings will live till time shall be no more. The concerns of the despised worshippers of the Lord are deemed more important by the Holy Spirit, than the exploits of the most illustrious monarch on earth. Mordecai was truly great, and his greatness…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2King Xerxes imposed heavy taxes on the provinces. These taxes funded the Persian government's high spending.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-31. Ahasuerus laid a tribute--This passage being an appendix to the history, and improperly separated from the preceding chapter, it might be that the occasion of levying this new impost arose out of the commotions raised by Haman's conspiracy. Neither the nature nor the amount of the tax has been recorded; only it was not a local tribute, but one exacted from all parts of his vast empire.Read the comment

Topics related to Esther 10:1

• Mordecai

In the dictionaries

• Ahasuerus
• the sea, the Great Sea, the western sea
• Esther, Book of
• Gabatha
• Island; Isle
• Isles of the Gentiles
• Tax; Taxing

Commentaries on Esther 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings