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**A tribute -**Perhaps an allusion to some fresh arrangement of the tribute likely to have followed on the return of Xerxes from Greece.
**Upon the isles of the sea -**Cyprus, Aradus, the island of Tyre, Platea, etc., remained in the hands of the Persians after the victories of the Greeks, and may be the “isles” here intended.

**Power and ... might -**In the later years of Xerxes his “power and might” were chiefly shown in the erection of magnificent buildings, more especially at Persepolis. He abstained from military expeditions.
**Kings of Media and Persia -**Media takes precedence of Persia because the kingdom of Media had preceded that of Persia, and in the “book of the Chronicles” its history came first.

**Mordecai ... was next unto king Ahasuerus -**See [Esther 2:5](../../../kjv/esther/2/5) note. Artabanus ([Esther 1:14](../../../kjv/esther/1/14) note) was favorite toward the end of Xerxes’ reign, i. e. in his 20th and 21st years.

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