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History repeats! There are 10 chapters in the Book of Esther.
I suggest you read the whole book. Chapter one: The King's
Decree: In those days the king reigned over 127 Provinces from India to Ethiopia. When the king sat on his throne which was in the Palace, in the third year of his reign, he made a feast. He invited all the nobles and princes of the Provinces. The feast lasted 180 days. He showed all his riches to his servants. When these days had expired he made a feast in the king's garden for all the people that were in the Palace, and it lasted seven days. He gave them drink in vessels of gold and Royal wine in abundance. The drinking was the king's law and none did compel, for the king had appointed that every man should do his pleasure. Also, the queen made a feast for the women in the Royal House of the king. When the heart of the king was merry with wine he commanded the seven chamberlains (servants) to bring Vash-ti, the queen, before the king to show the people the queen's beauty. When the queen refused to come the king was very angry and he said to the Wisemen who knew the law: "What shall we do to the queen? She has not obeyed the law and has not performed the commandment of the King!" Then Memucan, one of the servants, answered the king: "The queen has not done wrong only to the king, but also to all the princes. For this deed of the queen shall come abroad to all women so that they shall despise their husbands when this is reported." S0 again, the king demanded Queen Vash-ti to come before him. But she did not come. The servant Memucan spoke again: "If it pleases the king, let there go a Royal Commandment from the king and let it be written among the Persians and Medes that Queen Vash-ti will come no more before the king and give her Royal Estate to another that is better than she! When the king's decree shall be published throughout all the empire (127 Provinces from India to Ethiopia) all the wives shall give honor to their husbands." So the Decree pleased the king and the king did according to Memucan's word. Letters were sent into all the Provinces, to every people in their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house and it should be published according to the language of all people.
Esther's Feast: Chapter 2 of 10: "When the king's wrath was appeased he remembered Vash-ti and what she had done and the Decree for all women. Then the servants that ministered to the king suggested: "Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king throughout all Provinces and let the fair maiden chosen by the king be queen in place of Vash-ti." This pleased the king and he did so.
There was a certain Jew named Mordecai, a Benjamite, who had been carried from Jerusalem with the captivity whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon had carried away. He brought Hadassah (who is Esther) (Mordecai's cousin) She had no parents and was fair and beautiful. Mordecai took her for his own daughter because her parents were dead. It came to pass when the king's commandment and Decree were heard that many maidens were gathered in the king's Palace. Esther was brought also to the "Keeper of Women" Hagal. (the king's servant) Esther pleased Hagal and he speedily gave her seven maidens from the king's house. He preferred Esther above all women and gave her the best place in the House of women.
Esther had not shown that her people were Jews. For Mordecai had told her not to reveal it. Mordecai walked every day before the court of the Women's House to know what would become of Esther. When every maid's turn was come to go into the king she was given whatsoever she desired. When Esther was called to go before the king she took nothing but what the king's servants appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all. The king loved Esther above all the women and she obtained grace and favor in his sight, more than all the virgins. So the king set the Royal Crown on Esther's head and made her queen in the place of Vash-ti. Then the king made a great feast and named it "Esther's Feast." He made a release to all the Provinces and gave gifts.
When the virgins gathered together the second
time, Mordecai sat in the king's Gate. Esther had still not shown her
kindred, nor her people, for she obeyed the commandment of Mordecai.
While Mordecai sat in the King's Gate two of the king's chamberlains
(servants who kept the door) were wroth and sought to lay hands on the
king. This thing was known to Mordecai, who told it to Esther, the Queen,
and Esther certified the king in Mordecai's name. When this thing was
found out the chamberlains were hanged on a tree. (written in the book of
Chronicles)
Mordecai and Haman: Chapter 3: After these things happened the king promoted Haman and set his seat above all the princes that were with him and all the king's servants in the king's Gate bowed down to Haman. For the king had commanded. But Mordecai bowed not to Haman. Then the king's servants that were at the king's Gate questioned Mordecai: "Why do you transgress the king's commandment?" It came to pass when they spoke daily unto Mordecai and he hearkened not, that they told Haman that Mordecai confessed he was a Jew and did not bow to Haman. When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow to him, he was full of wrath! Haman had sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom.
Haman had come before King Ahasuerus, saying: "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among all 127 Provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are diverse for all people. They do not keep the king's law. Therefore, it is not profitable for the king to allow this! If it pleases the king: let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business (destroying the Jews) and I will bring it into the king's treasures."
Then the king took his ring and gave it unto Haman, the enemy of the
Jews. Then were the king's scribes called, according to all that Haman
commanded: to the king's lieutenant and governors over every Province and to
every people according to their language. It was sealed with the king's
ring. The letters were sent into every Province to destroy, kill, to cause
to perish, all Jews: both young and old: little children and women! All
in one day: to take the spoil of them for a prey. A copy of the
Commandment was to be given in every Province and published unto all people
that they should be ready against that day: THE TWELTH MONTH OF ADAR AND
THE 13TH DAY! THE POST WENT OUT AND THE DECREE WAS GIVEN IN SHUSHAN (THE
PALACE) AND THE KING AHASUERUS AND HAMAN SAT DOWN TO DRINK. BUT THE
CITY OF SHUSHAN WAS PERPLEXED!
A Great Mourning through the Land: Chapter 4: "When Mordecai heard about the King's commandment to destroy all Jews he went into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and bitter cry! He came before the king's Gate in every Province where the king's commandment came there was great mourning among the Jews. There was fasting and weeping and wailing among many. So Esther's maids came and told her. Then was Queen Esther exceedingly grieved. She sent a raiment to clothe Mordecai to take away his sackcloth (mourning clothes) but Mordecai refused the raiment. Then Esther called Hatach (one the king appointed to attend the queen). She gave Hatach a commandment to learn why Mordecai was in mourning clothes.
So Hatach went to Mordecai unto the streets of the city, which was before the king's Gate. Mordecai told Hatach of all that had happened and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasure in order to destroy the Jews. Also, Mordecai gave Hatach a copy of the writing that was given to destroy the Jews in order to show it to Esther and charge her that she should go to the king to make supplication unto him and to make a request before him for her people. So Hatach told Esther all the words of Mordecai.
Then Esther gave a commandment to Hatach to send to Mordecai: "All the king's servants and the keepers of his Provinces know that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court who is not called will be put to death unless the king will hold out his Golden Sceptre that he may live. I have not been called to come into the king for 30 days." So it was told to Mordecai of Esther's words. Again, Mordecai answered Esther: "Think not, Esther, that you shall escape in the king's house more than all the Jews! For if you hold your peace then shall deliverance arise from another place? You and your father's house shall be destroyed! WHO KNOWS WHETHER YOU HAVE COME TO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS?"
Then Esther bade them to return this
answer to Mordecai: "Gather together all the Jews and call a fast.
Neither eat nor drink for three days, both night and day. I, Queen
Esther, and my maidens will also fast and after 3 days I will go unto the king
which is not according to the law. IF I PERISH, I PERISH!" Then Mordecai went his way and did all that Queen Esther had commanded
him.
The Golden Sceptre: chapter 5: "It came to pass on the third day of fasting that Esther put on the Royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the King's House. The king sat upon his royal Throne against the Gate of the House. When he saw Esther standing in the court that she obtained favor in his sight and he held out to Esther the Golden Sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near and touched the top of the scepter. Then the king said: "What is your request? It shall be given, even to the half of the kingdom." Esther answered: "If it seem good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet I have prepared for him." The king said: (to his servants) "Cause Haman to come and do as Queen Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. At the banquet, the King again asked: "What is your petition? It shall be performed even to the half of the kingdom."
Then Esther answered the king: "If it pleases the king: and if I have found favor to grant my request I will request my petition tomorrow when the king and Haman come into the banquet I have prepared." Then Haman went joyful with a glad heart. But when he saw Mordecai in the king's Gate and Mordecai did not stand for him, Haman was full of indignation but he restrained himself. When Haman came home he called for his wife Zeresh and his friends and Haman told them of the glory of his riches and the multitude of his children and how the king had promoted him and advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. He told them how Esther, the queen, did let no man but Haman come to the banquet with her and the king. Then Haman said: "But all this avails me nothing as long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's Gate!"
Then Zeresh, Haman's wife, and all his friends
said unto him: "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high and
tomorrow speak unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon. Then
go merrily with the King into the banquet." And the thing pleased
Haman so he caused the gallows to be made.
Haman's Evil Plan: Chapter 6: "On that night the king could not sleep so he commanded to bring the book of records of the Chronicles. So the records were read before the king and it was found written that Mordecai had told the king when two of the king's chamberlains (keepers of the door) sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. Then the king said: "What honor has been shown to Mordecai for this deed?" The servants answered: "There has nothing been done." Then Haman had come to the outer court of the king's house. He had come to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared. When the king asked who was in the court, the servant told him it was Haman. So the king said: "Let him come in." When Haman came in the king said to Haman: "What shall be done to honor the man whom the king delights?"
Then Haman thought in his heart: "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?" Haman answered the king: "Let the Royal apparel be brought that the king wears, and the horse that the king rides, and the Crown which is set upon his head and let all this apparel be delivered by the hand of the king's most noble princes that they may array (dress and present) the man whom the king delights to honor and bring him on horseback through the streets of the city. This should be done to the man whom the king wishes to honor."
Then the king said to Haman: "Make
haste (go quickly) and take the apparel and the horse as you have said and do
even so to Mordecai, the Jew that sits at the king's Gate. Let nothing
fail of all that you have spoken." Then Haman took the apparel and
the horse and arrayed (dressed Mordecai and brought him on horseback through
the streets of the city and proclaimed before him: "This is done to
the man whom the king delights to honor." Then Mordecai went
back to sit at the king's gate but Haman went to his house mourning and having
his head covered. Haman told his wife and his friends of everything that
had befallen him. Then his wife and his wise men said: "If
Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews before whom you have begun to fall, you
shall not prevail against him. You shall surely fall before him."
While they were yet talking with him the king's chamberlains came and
brought Haman to the banquet which Queen Esther had prepared.
The Queen's Petition: Chapter 7: "So the king and Haman came to the banquet with Esther, the queen, and the king said again to Esther on the second day of the banquet: "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be given unto you, up to the half of the kingdom." Then Esther said to King Ahasuerus: "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request.
For we are sold and my people are to be destroyed; to be slain; and to perish. If we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail (stand for) the king's damage." Then the king said to Esther: "Who is he and where is he that presumes in his heart to do this?"
Esther answers the king: "The enemy is this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. Then the king rose up in his wrath and went into the Palace Garden. Haman stood up to request his life from Esther the queen. For he saw there was evil determined against him by the king. When the king returned from the Palace Garden to the place of the Banquet he found Haman fallen upon the bed where Esther was. Then said the king to Haman: "Will Haman also force the queen into the king's House?"
As the word went out of the king's mouth they covered
Haman's face. Then Harbona, one of the king's chamberlains, said to the
king: "Behold: The gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has
made for Mordecai, who has spoken good for the king, stands in the House of
Haman." Then King Ahasuerus ordered Haman to be hanged on the
gallows Haman had prepared for Mordecai! So the King's wrath was
pacified!
The King Reversed his Decree: Chapter 8: "On the day they hung Haman the king gave the House of Haman to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king. For Esther had told the king that Mordecai was her kindred.
The king took off his ring which he had taken from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. Then Esther set Mordecai over the House of Haman. Esther fell down at the feet of the king and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman and his device against the Jews. Then the king held out the Golden Sceptre to Esther. Esther arose and stood before the king and said:
"If I have found favor in the king's sight and if it seems right unto the king, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's Provinces (127 Provinces from India to Ethiopia.) For how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?" Then the king said to Esther and to Mordecai: "Behold: I have given Esther the House of Haman. They hanged Haman on the gallows because he laid hands upon the Jews. Write for the Jews as you like in the king's name and seal it with the king's ring so that the writing written in the king's name may not be reversed!"
So then were the king's scribes called in the third month of Sivan, on the 23rd day and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews and to the lieutenants; the deputies and rulers of the Provinces which are from India to Ethiopia and unto every people according to their language. Mordecai wrote it in King Ahasuerus' name and sealed it with the king's ring and sent the letters by posts on horseback and on mules and camels, wherever the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together and stand up for their lives: to destroy; to slay and cause to perish all the people in the Provinces that would assault them.
On the 13th day of the 12th month (Adar) the copy of the commandment that was to be given to all Provinces was published to all people and the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves upon their enemies. So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out pressed on the king's commandment and the decree was given at Shushan, the King's Palace."
Mordecai went out from the
presence of the king in Royal Apparel in blue and white with a great Crown of
gold and a garment of fine linen and purple. The city of Shushan rejoiced
and was glad the Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor! In every
Province and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came
to the Jews with joy and gladness; a feast and a good day! Many people of
the Land became Jews for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
The Gathering of the Jews: Chapter 9: "The same day in the month of Adar, on the 13th day, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be executed, the enemies of the Jews had hoped to have power over them but it was turned to the contrary! Now the Jews had the rule over the enemies that hated them.
The Jews gathered themselves together in the cities throughout all of King Ahasuerus' Provinces the Jews could lay hand on all those who sought to hurt them. No man could withstand them for the fear of the Jews fell upon all the people. All the rulers of the Provinces; the lieutenants; deputies and officers of the king helped the Jews for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. For Mordecai was great in the king's House and his fame went out through all 127 Provinces. From India to Ethiopia this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
The Jews smote all their enemies with a stroke of the sword and did what they would to those that hated them! They slew the ten sons of Haman but they took none of their goods. On that day the number of the slain was brought into the Palace before the king and the king said unto Esther the queen: "The Jews have slain and destroyed 500 men in Shushan the Palace. They have slain Haman's ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the Provinces? What is your petition? It shall be granted. What further do you request? It shall be done!" Then Esther answered the king: "If it pleases the king let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow according to today's decree. Let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows that Haman built for Mordecai. For the Jews gathered themselves together also on the 14th day in Shushan and stood up for their lives and slew 300 men but touched none of their goods. Other Jews in the Provinces stood up for their lives and had rest from their enemies. The Jews took none of the enemy's prey." On the 13th and 14th day of the month of Adar, the Jews rested and made those days a day of feasting and gladness. But the Jews that were at Shushan (the king's city) assembled together from the 13th to the 15th day of the month of Adar and made it 3 days of feasting and gladness. The Jews in the villages that dwelt in the unwalled towns made the 14th day a day of gladness and sent portions (gifts) to one another. Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews that were in all the Provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, to establish among them to keep the 14th and 15th day of the month of Adar yearly, as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies and the month which turned from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a good day: that they should keep the two days of feasting and joy and send gifts to the poor.
The Jews undertook to do as they had begun and as Mordecai had written unto them because Haman, the enemy of the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them. But when Esther came before the king he commanded letters that the wicked devices which Haman devised against the Jews should return upon his own head and he in return should be hanged on the gallows and also Haman's sons.
They called these days "Purim" after the name of "Pur" (Days of Lot) All the words of the letter and of that which they had seen. The Jews ordained and took upon them and upon their seed (future generations) and upon all who joined with them, so as it would not fail, that they would keep these days according to the king's letter and according to the appointed time yearly. These days (of Lot) should be remembered throughout every generation; every family' every Province; and of every city, that these Days of Purim (Lot) should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. (future generations)
Then Esther the Queen: (the adopted daughter of her
cousin Mordecai, the Jew,) wrote with all authority to confirm the second
Letter of Purim (Lot) and Mordecai sent the Second Letter to all the Jews. To
127 Provinces of the Kingdom of King Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth
to confirm these days of Purim in their time appointed according as Esther the
queen and Mordecai the Jew enjoined them, and as they had decreed for
themselves and for their seed., (future generations) the matters
(the importance) of their fastings and their cry. The Decrees of Esther
confirmed these matters and it was written in the Book (of records).
Declaration of the Greatness of Mordecai: Chapter 10: "The King Ahasuerus laid a tribute (tax) upon the Land and upon the Isles of the sea. All the Acts of his power and his power and the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia. For Mordecai the Jew was next unto the King Ahasuerus and great among the Jews and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people and seeking peace to all his seed. (Future Generations) end of the Book of Esther.
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