Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 16:14
In 3 translations
- KJV
- For by these means he thought, finding us destitute of friends, to have translated the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.
- DRC
- Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason against us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.
- LXXE8:12
- having by various and subtle artifices demanded for destruction both Mardochæus our deliverer and perpetual benefactor, and Esther the blameless consort of our kingdom, with their whole nation.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:12
- τόν τε ἡμέτερον σωτῆρα καὶ διαπαντὸς εὐεργέτην Μαρδοχαῖον, καὶ τὴν ἄμεμπτον τῆς βασιλείας κοινωνὸν Ἐσθὴρ σὺν παντὶ τῷ τούτων ἔθνει, πολυπλόκοις μεθόδων παραλογισμοῖς αἰτησάμενος εἰς ἀπώλειαν.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 8:12n in some Bibles
- 16:14 in most Bibles