⁸ Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,^(A) keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.^(B) It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.^(C)

¹² and from there to Philippi,^(A) a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for several days.