[1] Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) [2] That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, [3] In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before