9 Then Reʹhum+ the chief government official and Shimʹshai the scribe and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors across the River,*+ the secretaries,+ the people of Eʹrech,+ the Babylonians,+ the inhabitants of Suʹsa,*+ that is, the Eʹlam·ites,+

2 [that] in those days as King A·has·u·eʹrus was sitting upon his royal throne,+ which was in Shuʹshan+ the castle,*+

15 The couriers themselves went out, being moved to speed+ because of the king’s word, and the law itself was given in Shuʹshan+ the castle. As for the king and Haʹman, they sat down to drink;+ but as for the city of Shuʹshan,+ it was in confusion.+

2 And I began to see in the vision; and it came about, while I was seeing, that I was in Shuʹshan+ the castle, which is in Eʹlam+ the jurisdictional district; and I proceeded to see in the vision, and I myself happened to be by the watercourse* of Uʹlai.+