Esther 2:1

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After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Susa was the Persian royal capital where King Xerxes’ court met after his banquet, while Babylon and Jerusalem frame the wider exile: many Jews remained dispersed in Persian territories after Babylon’s conquest of Jerusalem. This setting explains how Esther’s story unfolds within imperial rule rather than in restored Judah.

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Esther 2:1 mentions Babylon, Jerusalem and Susa.

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Jerusalem — Jerusalem · Godot13