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Jan 4, 2022 · A variety of theories have emerged. According to Esther 1:11, Queen Vashti was told to appear “wearing her royal crown,” and one rabbinical tradition interprets this as the king’s instruction to wear only her royal crown—in other words, she was told to appear in the nude. According to that tradition, Queen Vashti refused because she did ...
- Queen Vashti Deposed
- Esther Made Queen
- Mordecai Uncovers A Conspiracy
- Haman’s Plot to Destroy The Jews
- Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help
- Esther’s Request to The King
- Haman’s Rage Against Mordecai
- Mordecai Honored
1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[a](A) the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces(B) stretching from India to Cush[b]:(C) 2 At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,(D) 3 and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet(E)for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Med...
2 Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided,(W) he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. 2 Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. 3 Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women int...
19 When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.(AQ) 20 But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.(AR) 21 During the time Mordecai was sitting at the ki...
3 After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,(AX) elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. 2 All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor...
4 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes,(BV) put on sackcloth and ashes,(BW) and went out into the city, wailing(BX) loudly and bitterly. 2 But he went only as far as the king’s gate,(BY) because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. 3 In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, the...
5 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes(CJ) and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s(CK) hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance. 2 When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther ap...
9 Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage(CS) against Mordecai.(CT) 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Calling together his friends and Zeresh,(CU) his wife, 11 Haman boasted(CV) to ...
6 That night the king could not sleep;(DB) so he ordered the book of the chronicles,(DC) the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. 2 It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.(DD) 3 “What honor and recog...
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Queen Vashti Deposed - This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces ...
Expositor's Bible Commentary. Esther 1:1. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) AHASUERUS AND VASHTI. Esther 1:1-22 THE character of Ahasuerus illustrates the Nemesis of absolutism, by showing how unlimited power is crushed ...
Feb 7, 2019 · Interpretations. Although Esther and Mordecai are the heroes of the Purim story, some see Vashti has a heroine in her own right. She refuses to debase herself before the king and his drunken friends, choosing to value her dignity above submitting to her husband's whims. Vashti is seen as a strong character who does not use her beauty or ...
a. The matter became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king: Mordecai’s attitude wasn’t “I’m a Jewish man in exile under a pagan king, so I do not care if he is killed.”. Instead, he anticipates Peter’s thought in 1 Peter 2:17, before Peter ever wrote it: Fear God. Honor the king. i.
Esther 1. Queen Vashti Deposed. 1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: 2 At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, 3 and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders ...
