Vashti Angers the King

1 These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus,^(A) who ruled 127 provinces^(B) from India to Cush.

¹³ Letters were sent by couriers^(A) to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people – young and old, women and children – and plunder their possessions on a single day,^(B) the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.^[a]

³⁰ He sent letters with assurances of peace and security^[a] to all the Jews who were in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,