Most Popular Bible Verses in Esther
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If you keep silent at this time, liberation and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place,
He displayed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness
He held a feast
These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus,
On the seventh day, when the king was feeling good from the wine,
White and violet linen hangings were fastened with fine white and purple linen cords to silver rods on marble
When they had warned him day after day
At the end of this time, the king held a week-long banquet
Beverages were served in an array of gold goblets,
Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to her, and dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what he was doing and why.
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command that was delivered by his eunuchs. The king became furious and his anger burned within him.
to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. He wanted to show off her beauty to the people and the officials, because she was very beautiful.
The king consulted the wise men
Let the king appoint commissioners
The most trusted ones
For the queen’s action will become public knowledge to all the women and cause them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Ahasuerus ordered Queen Vashti brought before him, but she did not come.’
He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language,
and no restraint was placed on the drinking. The king had ordered every wine steward in his household to serve as much as each person wanted.
They killed these 10 sons
Before this day is over, the noble women of Persia and Media who hear about the queen’s act will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in more contempt and fury.
The king and his counselors approved the proposal, and he followed Memucan’s advice.
Memucan said in the presence of the king and his officials, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the officials and the peoples who are in every one of King Ahasuerus’s provinces.
The king asked, “According to the law, what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey King Ahasuerus’s command that was delivered by the eunuchs?”
The decree the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom,
“If it meets the king’s approval, he should personally issue a royal decree. Let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media, so that it cannot be revoked:
When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing down or paying him homage, he was filled with rage.
Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the house of wine drinking, Haman was falling on the couch
While drinking the
On the twenty-third day of the third month
Mordecai told him everything that had happened as well as the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay the royal treasury for the slaughter of the Jews.
Mordecai wrote in King Ahasuerus’s name and sealed the edicts with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers,
Harbona, one of the royal eunuchs,
The king commanded, “Hang him on it.”
And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with
On that day the number of people killed in the fortress of Susa was reported to the king.
If the king approves of me
The king said to Queen Esther, “In the fortress of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men, including Haman’s 10 sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek will also be done.”
Then the young woman who pleases the king
The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa.
In the first month, the month of Nisan,
Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,
Yet Haman controlled himself and went home. He sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh
In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai
They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.
The king’s command and law
Have them bring a royal garment that the king himself has worn
After all this took place, King Ahasuerus honored Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite.
Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa ordering their destruction, so that Hathach might show it to Esther, explain it to her, and command her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead with him personally for her people.
Mordecai
The Jews in Susa assembled again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar
They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.
Hathach came and repeated Mordecai’s response to Esther.
The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces assembled, defended themselves, and got rid of
If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to
This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.
Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin
The king told Haman, “Hurry, and do just as you proposed. Take a garment and a horse for Mordecai the Jew,
When Mordecai learned all that had occurred,
The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.
Mordecai went from the king’s presence clothed in royal purple and white, with a great gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen.
He had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the other captives when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took King Jeconiah
He ordered
The king removed his signet ring
The royal scribes were summoned
Some time later,
When the king’s command and edict became public knowledge, many young women gathered at the fortress of Susa under Hegai’s care. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, who was in charge of the women.
But when the matter was brought before the king,
During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
“All the royal officials and the people of the royal provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner courtyard
This would take place on a single day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.
Esther did not reveal her ethnic background or her birthplace, because Mordecai had ordered her not to.
That day Haman left full of joy and in good spirits.
Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther, “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace.
The young woman pleased him and gained his favor
Then the king told Haman, “The money and people are given to you to do with as you see fit.”
Esther was the daughter of Abihail,
Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus,
Letters were sent by couriers
On the third day,
A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples so that they might get ready for that day.
The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses at the king’s urgent command. The law was also issued in the fortress of Susa.
She was taken to King Ahasuerus in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
The king loved Esther more than all the other women. She won more favor and approval from him than did any of the other young women. He placed the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
Put the garment and the horse under the charge of one of the king’s most noble officials.
The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate
The king’s personal attendants
Every day Mordecai took a walk in front of the harem’s courtyard to learn how Esther was doing and to see what was happening to her.
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday.
A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples
During those days while Mordecai was sitting at the King’s Gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two eunuchs
She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the supervision of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines.
That night sleep escaped
When the young women
There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict
All of his powerful and magnificent accomplishments
The members of the royal staff at the King’s Gate asked Mordecai, “Why are you disobeying the king’s command?”
Esther’s female servants and her eunuchs came and reported the news to her, and the queen was overcome with fear.
Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honored him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.
When the report was investigated and verified, both men were hanged on the gallows.
The king held a great banquet for all his officials and staff.
Esther still had not revealed her birthplace or her ethnic background, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he raised her.
When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she told the king on Mordecai’s behalf.
That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate
The king gave the orders for this to be done, so a law was announced in Susa, and they hung the bodies of Haman’s 10 sons.
When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the palace.
Still, none of this satisfies me since I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King’s Gate all the time.”
So Haman took the garment and the horse. He clothed Mordecai and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man the king wants to honor.”
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet
He only went as far as the King’s Gate,
As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard, she won his approval.
Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate,
You may write in the king’s name whatever pleases you
The king removed his signet ring he had recovered from Haman
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends
Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews who are in Susa also have tomorrow
“What is it, Queen Esther?” the king asked her. “Whatever you want, even to half the kingdom, will be given to you.”
Then Esther addressed the king again.
“What’s more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she had prepared. I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.
They found the written report of how Mordecai had informed on Bigthana and Teresh, two eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they planned to assassinate King Ahasuerus.
She said, “If it pleases the king, and I have found approval before him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his sight,
The king extended the gold scepter
Queen Esther answered, “If I have obtained your approval,
The king commanded, “Hurry, and get Haman so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared.
King Ahasuerus said to Esther the Queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther,
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet
While they were still speaking with him, the eunuchs of the king
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king wants to honor?”
Haman thought to himself, “Who is it the king would want to honor more than me?”
Once again, on the second day while drinking wine,
For my people and I have been sold out
because during those days the Jews got rid of
Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy
Haman stood terrified
King Ahasuerus spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
The king asked, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman was just entering the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
Angered
The king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.”
“Have him enter,” the king ordered.
The king inquired, “What honor and special recognition have been given to Mordecai for this act?”
The king’s personal attendants replied, “Nothing has been done for him.”
But the Jews in Susa had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. They rested on the fifteenth day of the month, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.
For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews,
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,
including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
In the fortress of Susa
the Jews bound themselves, their descendants, and all who joined
All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the royal civil administrators
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them.
For this reason these days are called Purim, from the word Pur.
Because of all the instructions in this letter as well as what they had witnessed and what had happened to them,
Queen Esther daughter of Abihail,
These days are remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim will not lose their significance in Jewish life
So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.
He sent letters with messages of peace and faithfulness to all the Jews who were in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace,
In those days King Ahasuerus reigned from his royal throne
in order to confirm these days of Purim at their proper time just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and just as they had committed themselves and their descendants to the practices of fasting