Esther 10:1

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the isles of the sea.

American King James Version (AKJV)

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the isles of the sea.

American Standard Version (ASV)

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

Webster's Revision

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

World English Bible

King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.

English Revised Version (ERV)

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

Definitions for Esther 10:1

Sea - Large basin.

Clarke's Esther 10:1 Bible Commentary

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 Hystaspes. Calmet supposes that this Hystaspes is the Ahasuerus of Esther.

Barnes's Esther 10:1 Bible Commentary

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, Platea, etc., remained in the hands of the Persians after the victories of the Greeks, and may be the "isles" here intended.