Susa
수산
Named at Nehemiah 1:1 as the place where the speaker (“I”) was: “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace”. The Korean Revised Version writes 수산궁 (Susa the palace) as one word, and gives the date with a king’s name (아닥사스다왕 제 이십년 기슬르월에), where WEB names no king. Esther 1:2 says that the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace, and 1:5 that the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small. At 2:3 the king’s servants counsel that all the beautiful young virgins be gathered together to the citadel of Susa; 2:5 says, “There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai”; and at 2:8 many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, and Esther was taken into the king’s house. At 3:15 the decree is given out in the citadel of Susa, and “The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.” The Korean Revised Version writes 수산 궁 (1:2), 도성 수산 (1:5, 2:3, 2:5, 2:8, 3:15) and 수산성 (3:15). Esther 8:14–15 says that the decree written according to all that Mordecai commanded “was given out in the citadel of Susa”, and that when Mordecai went out of the presence of the king, “the city of Susa shouted and was glad”; and 9:6–18, that in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men, that at Esther’s request the king commanded it and a decree was given out in Susa, that the Jews who were in Susa killed three hundred men in Susa on the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and that the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month, and on the fifteenth day rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness. Daniel 8:1–2 says that in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared “to me, even to me, Daniel”, and, “when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.”
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- DAN 8:1–4, engwebp
1In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
2I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
3Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram which had two horns stood before the river. The two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
4I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
- EST 1:1–4, engwebp
1Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
2in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,
3in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him.
4He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
- EST 1:5–8, engwebp
5When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
6There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.
7They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.
8In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
- EST 2:1–4, engwebp
1After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
2Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
3Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
4and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.
- EST 2:5–7, engwebp
5There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
6who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
7He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
- EST 2:8–11, engwebp
8So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
9The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.
10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
11Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.
- EST 3:12–15, engwebp
12Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
13Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
14A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
15The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
- EST 4:4–9, engwebp
4Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth, but he didn’t receive it.
5Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.
6So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square which was before the king’s gate.
7Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
8He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.
9Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
- EST 4:15–17, engwebp
15Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
- EST 8:9–14, engwebp
9Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.
10He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.
11In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
12on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
13A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
14So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
- EST 8:15–17, engwebp
15Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
16The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
17In every province and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews had fallen on them.
- EST 9:6–10, engwebp
6In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
7They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
- EST 9:11–15, engwebp
11On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
12The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
13Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
14The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
15The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
- EST 9:16–19, engwebp
16The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
17This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
18But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
- NEH 1:1–3, engwebp
1The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace,
2Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
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- Shush
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Narrated location (11) — Hanani and certain men come out of Judah and say that the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, King Ahasuerus makes a feast for all his princes and his servants in the third year of his reign, The king makes a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, Mordecai, a Jew in the citadel of Susa, brings up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, Esther is taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women, All that Haman commanded is written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s ring, Mordecai goes out of the presence of the king in royal clothing, and the city of Susa shouts and is glad, In the citadel of Susa the Jews kill five hundred men, and they kill the ten sons of Haman, The king commands it and a decree is given out in Susa, and the Jews who were in Susa kill three hundred men on the fourteenth day of Adar, The other Jews in the king’s provinces kill seventy-five thousand of those who hated them, and rest and make it a day of feasting and gladness, Daniel, in the citadel of Susa, sees in a vision a ram which had two horns
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The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace,
in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,
When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Susa (place-susa) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/susa Current wording: Named at Nehemiah 1:1 as the place where the speaker (“I”) was: “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace”. The Korean Revised Version writes 수산궁 (Susa the palace) as one word, and gives the date with a king’s name (아닥사스다왕 제 이십년 기슬르월에), where WEB names no king. Esther 1:2 says that the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace, and 1:5 that the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small. At 2:3 the king’s servants counsel that all the beautiful young virgins be gathered together to the citadel of Susa; 2:5 says, “There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai”; and at 2:8 many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, and Esther was taken into the king’s house. At 3:15 the decree is given out in the citadel of Susa, and “The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.” The Korean Revised Version writes 수산 궁 (1:2), 도성 수산 (1:5, 2:3, 2:5, 2:8, 3:15) and 수산성 (3:15). Esther 8:14–15 says that the decree written according to all that Mordecai commanded “was given out in the citadel of Susa”, and that when Mordecai went out of the presence of the king, “the city of Susa shouted and was glad”; and 9:6–18, that in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men, that at Esther’s request the king commanded it and a decree was given out in Susa, that the Jews who were in Susa killed three hundred men in Susa on the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and that the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month, and on the fifteenth day rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness. Daniel 8:1–2 says that in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared “to me, even to me, Daniel”, and, “when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.” Cited evidence: DAN 8:1–4, engwebp / EST 1:1–4, engwebp / EST 1:5–8, engwebp / EST 2:1–4, engwebp / EST 2:5–7, engwebp / EST 2:8–11, engwebp / EST 3:12–15, engwebp / EST 4:4–9, engwebp (and 7 more of 15) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.