Mordecai ... was next unto king Ahasuerus - See Esther 2:5 note. Artabanus (Esther 1:14 note) was favorite toward the e…

Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus.—We have seen that the events recorded in this book carry us to the year 470 B.C., at which ti…

For Mordecai the Jew was next unto Ahasuerus
The second man in the kingdom, the principal of the counsellors, and pr…

Many instances of the grandeur of Ahasuerus might have been given: these were written in the Persian chronicles, which have long since been lost, w…