otcanon
Esther 10
The book closes with a brief register of Ahasuerus's reign and the elevation of Mordecai, a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, to second position in the empire — second only to the king, accepted by his brethren, and directing the welfare and peace of his people. The Joseph-of-Egypt master type is present in plain sight: the foreigner raised to second throne, spending that authority for the preservation and prosperity of his scattered kin. Mordecai's deeds are sealed in the royal chronicles, marking the covenant people's survival as a matter of imperial record.
1
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
2
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
3
For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
