Now King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.Why is this verse here? We just got through talking about the feast of Purim, and about how big Mordecai was, and how important Esther was. The rest of the chapter is back to talking about Mordecai. So why in the middle of this does a new tax get mentioned? It's almost as if there was going to be more to the history, but the author chose to cut it short all of the sudden.
My only guess is that this tribute either went to Esther and/or Mordecai, or else was administered by Mordecai, or Mordecai was in charge of dealing with how the money collected was used. Not sure which of the three it was, or why it's in here at all, but it seems very random.
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