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May 23, 2024 · Many of us know the story of Esther, a Jewish woman who married the King of Persia and saved her people from a genocide. As the story goes, the Persian king, after divorcing his wife, chooses to marry Esther. When Haman, an adviser to the king, issued an edict to wipe out all the Jews, Esther approaches the king to find a way to save her people.
4 days ago · Esther’s boldness shines brightest when she approaches King Xerxes without being summoned — a move that could have cost her life. That’s how her actions teach us that courage often requires us to step out of our comfort zones, face our fears, and take calculated risks for the greater good. 2. Hidden identity
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3 days ago · Ahasuerus, king of Persia, is better known as Xerxes I who reigned 486-465 BC. Yet there is little extra-biblical evidence for the other characters in Esther. Most scholars regard Esther as a...
3 days ago · The King Ahasuerus mentioned in that book may refer to Xerxes I (486-465 BC). Seleucid period [ edit ] The marriages of Stateira II to Alexander the Great of Macedon and her sister, Drypteis , to Hephaestion at Susa in 324 BC, as depicted in a late-19th-century engraving.
May 18, 2024 · Yet Persia holds pride of place in the narrative background to the religion of the Bible. According to the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, the Persian rulers from Cyrus to Artaxerxes allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem, and helped with the building of the second temple.
3 days ago · Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.
May 21, 2024 · Biblical Sidon is perhaps most infamously known as the birthplace of the Phoenician princess Jezebel (1 Kings 16:31), who became queen of the Israelites during King Ahab’s reign in the ninth century B.C.E. (the Iron Age). In the Bible, Jezebel is notorious for persecuting the worship of Yahweh and for demanding that the Israelites worship Baal.
