Esther 8:1

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On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to 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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India and Ethiopia marked the eastern and southern reaches of Ahasuerus’s vast Persian Empire, emphasizing the scale of the realm in which Haman’s plot had threatened the Jews. Susa, the royal citadel

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Esther 8:1 mentions Ethiopia, India and Susa.