ESTHER 10 [†]King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on  y the coastlands of the sea. 2[†]And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai,  z to which the king advanced him, are they not written in  a the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 3[^][†]For Mordecai the Jew was  b second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he  c sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.