Ezra 8:36

36 aThey also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s bsatraps
A satrap was a Persian official
and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God.

Esther 3:12

12 dThen the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s esatraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, fto every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written gin the name of King Ahasuerus hand sealed with the king’s signet ring.

Esther 8:9

9 iThe king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to jthe satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces kfrom India to Ethiopia, l127 provinces, mto each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.

Daniel 3:2

2Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather nthe satraps, the prefects, and othe governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Daniel 6:1-2

Daniel and the Lions’ Den

1It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom p120 qsatraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; 2and over them rthree high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these ssatraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.
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