Esther 1:1-2

Young's Literal Translation

1 And it cometh to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus -- he [is] Ahasuerus who is reigning from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces --

² in those days, at the sitting of the king Ahasuerus on the throne of his kingdom, that [is] in Shushan the palace,