And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
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Gill's Exposition
And the King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and upon the isles of the sea. Which include all his dominions, both on the continent, and on the sea, the Aegean sea; though Aben Ezra thinks it…
Barnes' Notes
A tribute - Perhaps an allusion to some fresh arrangement of the tribute likely to have followed on the return of Xerxes from Greece. Upon the isles of the sea - Cyprus, Aradus, the island of Tyre,…
Adam Clarke
Laid a tribute upon the land - On the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of which we have already heard.
The isles of the sea - Probably the isles of the Aegean sea, which were conquered by Darius…
We are here told,
I. How great and powerful king Ahasuerus was. He had a vast dominion, both in the continent and among the islands, from which he raised a vast revenue. Besides the usual customs…
Est 10:1-3. Mordecai's greatness
The connexion of this short chapter with the rest of the Book is obscure. It may be a fragment of some other work, which, owing to its subject-matter, came to be…
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