Xerxes’ taxation over the empire and coastlands highlights the continued reach of Persian authority.
1 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.
The royal chronicles contain the account of Mordecai’s greatness and the king’s elevation of him.
2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Mordecai is second to the king, honored among the Jews, and remembered for seeking their good and speaking peace to all his people.
3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.