Esther 8:9 (WEB)
So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the local governors and chiefs of the local governors, from India even to Ethiopia—one hundred twenty-seven local governors, according to the several provinces, in their own languages.
Fathers and councils · 1
“…that country merely did he possess his kingdom’s dominion; if Nebuchadnezzar with his petty kings, “from India unto Ethiopia” he had his kingdom’s boundaries; if Alexander the Macedonian he did not hold more than universal Asia, and other regions, after he had quite conquered them; if the Germans, to this day they…” — editor's note: See Esth. i. 1; viii. 9.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.