And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him an inheritance on every side [free] from all his enemies round about him;

And Solomon is seated upon the throne of the kingdom.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was thriving in my house, and prospering.

And let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair [and] chaste young women, [and bring them] to the city Susa, into the women's apartment, and let them be consigned to the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women. And let things for purification and other attendance be given [to them].

And the business was hastened, and [that] at Susa. And the king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.

Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day. And I also and my maidens will fast, and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

And the king said to Esther, The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. And what have they done in the rest of the country? What then is your petition, that it may be [done] for you?

And he permitted it to be so done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman, to hang.

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month of Chislev, of the twentieth year, that I was in Shushan the palace.

And I was in Susa the palace, which is in the land of Elam, and I was on the [bank of the] Ulai.