קָרֹב

So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”

Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,

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all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God