Esther 1:1-3

Now it came to pass in the days
<03117>

of Ahasuerus
<0325>_,

(this [is] Ahasuerus
<0325>

which reigned
<04427> (8802)_,

from India
<01912>

even unto Ethiopia
<03568>_,

[over] an hundred
<03967>

and seven
<07651>

and twenty
<06242>

provinces
<04082>:)

[That] in those days
<03117>_,

when the king
<04428>

Ahasuerus
<0325>

sat
<03427> (8800)

on the throne
<03678>

of his kingdom
<04438>_,

which [was] in Shushan
<07800>

the palace
<01002>_,

In the third
<07969>

year
<08141>

of his reign
<04427> (8800)_,

he made
<06213> (8804)

a feast
<04960>

unto all his princes
<08269>

and his servants
<05650>_;

the power
<02428>

of Persia
<06539>

and Media
<04074>_,

the nobles
<06579>

and princes
<08269>

of the provinces
<04082>_,

[being] before
<06440>

him: