Cross references
Esther 1:3
In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
Esther 1:3 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Mark 6:21 (7 votes) and Esther 2:18 (6 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 21 to 1 John 2.
Which verses does Esther 1:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Mark 6:217 votes
On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- Esther 2:186 votes
Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.
- Daniel 5:16 votes
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- 1 Kings 3:154 votes
Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.
- Genesis 40:203 votes
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
- Isaiah 21:23 votes
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- Jeremiah 51:113 votes
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
- Esther 1:142 votes
His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
- Daniel 3:2–32 votes
Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up. So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.
- Daniel 5:282 votes
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- Daniel 6:12 votes
Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
- Daniel 6:6–72 votes
- Daniel 8:202 votes
- Ezra 1:21 vote
Which verses point to Esther 1:3?
The 10 strongest of 15.