Esther 1:1 WEB

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

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

³  in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him;