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The king Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the isles of the sea.
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The Cost of a King's War
Commentators widely agree that this tribute was a direct result of King Ahasuerus's (likely Xerxes) costly and disastrous war with Greece. Scholars like Barnes, Ellicott, and Gill explain that the expedition drained the royal treasury, forcing the king to impose new taxes on the mainland and the islands he still controlled, such as Cyprus, to refill his coffers.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A tribute — Perhaps an allusion to some fresh arrangement of the tribute likely to have followed on the return of Xerxes from Greece.<…
19th Century
Anglican
Laid a tribute. —The disastrous expedition to Greece must have taxed the resources of the empire to the utmost, and fresh tribute …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and upon the isles of the sea . Which include all his dominions, both …
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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…
