Ester 10

1 Und der König Ahasveros legte dem Festland und den Inseln des Meeres einen Tribut auf.

King Xerxes required that all the people in his empire pay taxes. Even the people who lived on the islands [in the Mediterranean Sea] (OR, in coastal areas) were required to pay taxes.

2 Aber alle Werke seiner Gewalt und seiner Macht und die Beschreibung der Größe Mardochais, zu welcher ihn der König erhob, ist das nicht aufgezeichnet in der Chronik der Könige von Medien und Persien?

And all the great and powerful things that Xerxes did were written in the scroll called/entitled ‘The record of the things done by the kings of Media and Persia’. In this book were also written [the things done] by Mordecai, the man whom the king had greatly honored.

3 Denn der Jude Mardochai war der Nächste nach dem König Ahasveros und groß unter den Juden und beliebt bei der Menge seiner Brüder, weil er das Beste seines Volkes suchte und mit all seinem Geschlecht freundlich redete!

Mordecai, who was a Jew, became the king’s most important official, and [all] the Jews also considered him to be a very great man. They [all] respected him, because he did many good things for the Jews, and he often asked [the king] to do good things for them.