Esther 1:1-7 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus—he was the Ahasuerus reigning from India and as far as Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces—

2 in those days, when King Ahasuerus sat upon the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the citadel,

3 in the third year of his reigning, he made a feast for all his officials and his servants; the strength of Persia and Media, the nobles, and the officials of the provinces were before his face

4 in his showing the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the splendor of the beauty of his greatness many days—eighty and a hundred days.

5 And in the fullness of these days, the king made for all the people, the ones found in Susa the citadel, from great even to small, a feast for seven days in the court of the garden of the palace of the king.

6 White linen and blue hangings were fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on rings of silver and pillars of marble, and couches of gold and silver were on a pavement of porphyry, and marble, and pearl, and precious stone.

7 And serving drinks in vessels of gold, and the vessels were varying vessels, and the wine of royalty was abundant, according to the hand of the king.