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that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Verse ConceptsQueensAnger Of Man, UnrighteousSocial Fellowshipwomanhood

When the king's decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small."

Verse ConceptsThe Honourable Will Be HonouredWives

So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Verse ConceptsMonth 10

In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot) before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsPurimMonth 12

Letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king's gate.

Verse ConceptsCity Squares

"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

Verse ConceptsFasting, Examples OfPray For UsFastingFasting And Prayer

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king.

Verse ConceptsDisplayingPromotionThe More Children The BetterSeeking HonourWealthy People

let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set.

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfRich ApparelDressCrowns On CreaturesDistinctive Clothing

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it."

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsAbasement, Examples OfDimensions Of Other Things

The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To People

She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.

Verse ConceptsKilling Israelites

Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may not be reversed by any man."

Verse ConceptsSealing The Message

Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and officials of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

Verse ConceptsAfricaMonth 3A Hundred And SomeAlphabet

on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Jews Under ThreatHating Peoples

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesPeople Providing FoodRejoicing In God's Works

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

Therefore they called these days "Purim," from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

Verse ConceptsPurimthe anniversary FeastsCelebrationcelebrating

All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Verse ConceptsBusiness, ExamplesHistorical Booksaccomplishments