'Ordered' in the Bible

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.

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.’

Esther did not reveal her ethnic background or her birthplace, because Mordecai had ordered her not to.

So Mordecai went and did everything Esther had ordered him.

That night sleep escaped the king, so he ordered the book recording daily events to be brought and read to the king.

The king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.”“Have him enter,” the king ordered.

On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is, the month Sivan), the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

He ordered them to celebrate the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar every year