Esther 10:1-3 reads: And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and upon the isles of the sea. And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai ...
In the biblical story of Esther, the focus of the Jewish holiday Purim, a Persian ruler named King Ahasuerus (whom many Christian readers will know as Xerxes or Artaxerxes) faced a life-or-death ...