1. In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces:
2. When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the capital of his kingdom.
3. Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight,
4. That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore days.