Verse 10

The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 4:28 : 28 And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
  • 1 Kgs 21:8 : 8 So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.
  • 2 Chr 30:6 : 6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.
  • Esth 3:12-13 : 12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring. 13 And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.
  • Job 9:25 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
  • Eccl 8:4 : 4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
  • Isa 60:6 : 6 You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.
  • Isa 66:20 : 20 And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
  • Jer 2:23 : 23 How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
  • Jer 51:21 : 21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;
  • Dan 4:1 : 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.