Chapter Text
10:1 And the King Ahashuerosh layd a tribute vpon the land, and vpon the yles of the sea.
10:2 And all the actes of his power, and of his might, and the declaration of the dignitie of Mordecai, wherwith the King magnified him, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
10:3 For Mordecai the Iewe was the second vnto King Ahashuerosh, and great among the Iewes, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, who procured the wealth of his people, and spake peaceably to all his seede.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "king", "ahashuerosh", "layd", "tribute", "vpon", "land", and "yles". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "king" and "ahashuerosh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The local GNV text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "king" and "ahashuerosh" carries the first interpretive weight. In Esther context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "king" and "ahashuerosh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.