20 occurrences in 13 translations

'Time' in the Bible

At that time King Ahasuerus was ruling from Susa the capital.

He displayed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor of his majestic greatness for a lengthy period of time -- a hundred and eighty days, to be exact!

Verse ConceptsDisplayingFive Months And MoreSeeking HonourWealthy People

At the end of this time, the king held a week-long banquet in the garden courtyard of the royal palace for all the people, from the greatest to the least, who were present in the fortress of Susa.

Verse ConceptsDinnerSeven Days

Some time later, when King Ahasuerus’s rage had cooled down, he remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what was decided against her.

Verse ConceptsPeople Remembering

Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus at the end of the twelve month period, at which time she was treated according to the regulations for women. This process completed the period of her beauty treatments six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and cosmetics for women.

Verse ConceptsMyrrhMarital SexFive Months And MoreOne YearMarital Sex BetweenYoung LadiesEtiquetteMonthsWomen's BeautyWomen's Rolesmakeupprocess

Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

Verse ConceptsHuman FavourMan's CounselWomen's Rolesmakeup

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewaySecond Marriage

At that time when Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs among those who guarded the threshold, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Ahasuerus.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayAttempting To Kill Specific People

Some time later King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, exalting him and setting his position above that of all the officials who were with him.

Verse ConceptsPromotion

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Verse ConceptsPurimAuthority Of PeopleRight Time For Peopledeliveranceliberationroyalty

If I have found favor in the king's sight and if the king is inclined to grant my request and perform my petition, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them. At that time I will do as the king wishes.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, CharaceristicsMan's Action TomorrowFavor

Still, none of this satisfies me since I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King’s Gate all the time.”

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfSitting In The Gateway

Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

Verse ConceptsAfricaMonth 3A Hundred And SomeAlphabet

So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

Verse ConceptsMules

Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the haters of the Jews had been hoping to have rule over them; though the opposite had come about, and the Jews had rule over their haters;

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Jews Under ThreatHating Peoples

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.

Verse ConceptsExcitementMonth 12The CountrysidePeople Providing Food

as the time when the Jews gave themselves rest from their enemies -- the month when their trouble was turned to happiness and their mourning to a holiday. These were to be days of banqueting, happiness, sending gifts to one another, and providing for the poor.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesPeople Providing FoodRejoicing In God's Works

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

Verse ConceptsPurim

And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their seed.

Verse ConceptsMemorial

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 and lamentation.

Verse ConceptsHow To Fast

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