So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
 

2:16 the seventh year. Vashti had been deposed in the third year of the emperor’s reign (Esther 1:3). The four intervening years before Esther’s coronation had evidently been occupied with the huge but unsuccessful attempt to invade and conquer Greece.

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