Esther 1:1-3

Darby Translation

1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),

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

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 the princes of the provinces being before him;