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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
1:1 Now it came king's palace;
to pass in the 1:6 [Where were]
days of white, green, and
Ahasuerus, (this blue, [hangings],
[is] Ahasuerus fastened with
which reigned, cords of fine
from India even linen and purple
unto Ethiopia, to silver rings
[over] an hundred and pillars of
and seven and marble: the beds
twenty [were of] gold
provinces:) and silver, upon
1:2 [That] in a pavement of
those days, when red, and blue,
the king and white, and
Ahasuerus sat on black, marble.
the throne of his 1:7 And they
kingdom, which gave [them] drink
[was] in Shushan in vessels of
the palace, gold, (the
1:3 In the third vessels being
year of his diverse one from
reign, he made a another,) and
feast unto all royal wine in
his princes and abundance,
his servants; the according to the
power of Persia state of the
and Media, the king.
nobles and 1:8 And the
princes of the drinking [was]
provinces, according to the
[being] before law; none did
him: compel: for so
1:4 When he the king had
showed the riches appointed to all
of his glorious the officers of
kingdom and the his house, that
honour of his they should do
excellent majesty according to
many days, [even] every man's
and hundred and pleasure.
fourscore days. 1:9 Also Vashti
1:5 And when the queen made a
these days were feast for the
expired, the king women [in] the
made a feast unto royal house which
all the people [belonged] to
that were present king Ahasuerus.
in Shushan the 1:10 On the
palace, both unto seventh day, when
great and small, the heart of the
seven days, in king was merry
the court of the with wine, he
garden of the commanded
Mehuman, Biztha, 1:15 What shall
Harbona, Bigtha, we do unto the
and Abagtha, queen Vashti
Zethar, and according to law,
Carcas, the seven because she hath
chamberlains that not performed the
served in the commandment of
presence of the king
Ahasuerus the Ahasuerus by the
king, chamberlains?
1:11 To bring 1:16 And Memucan
Vashti the queen answered before
before the king the king and the
with the crown princes, Vashti
royal, to show the queen hath
the people and not done wrong to
the princes her the king only,
beauty: for she but also to all
[was] fair to the princes, and
look on. to all the people
1:12 But the that [are] in all
queen Vashti the provinces of
refused to come the king
at the king's Ahasuerus.
commandment by 1:17 For [this]
[his] deed of the queen
chamberlains: shall come abroad
therefore was the unto all women,
king very wroth, so that they
and his anger shall despise
burned in him. their husbands in
1:13 Then the their eyes, when
king said to the it shall be
wise men, which reported, The
knew the times, king Ahasuerus
(for so [was] the commanded Vashti
king's manner the queen to be
toward all that brought in before
knew law and him, but she came
judgment: not.
1:14 And the 1:18 [Likewise]
next unto him shall the ladies
[was] Carshena, of Persia and
Shethar, Admatha, Media say this
Tarshish, Meres, day unto all the
Marsena, [and] king's princes,
Memucan, the which have heard
seven princes of of the deed of
Persia and Media, the queen. Thus
which saw the [shall there
king's face, arise] too much
[and] which sat contempt and
the first in the wrath.
kingdom;) 1:19 If it
please the king, according to the
let there go a language of every
royal commandment people.
from him, and let 2:1 After these
it be written things, when the
among the laws of wrath of king
the Persians and Ahasuerus was
the Medes, that appeased, he
it be not remembered
altered, That Vashti, and what
Vashti come no she had done, and
more before king what was decreed
Ahasuerus; and against her.
let the king give 2:2 Then said
her royal estate the king's
unto another that servants that
is better than ministered unto
she. him, Let there be
1:20 And when fair young
the king's decree virgins sought
which he shall for the king:
make shall be 2:3 And let the
published king appoint
throughout all officers in all
his empire, (for the provinces of
it is great,) all his kingdom, that
the wives shall they may gather
give to their together all the
husbands honour, fair young
both to great and virgins unto
small. Shushan the
1:21 And the palace, to the
saying pleased house of the
the king and the women, unto the
princes; and the custody of Hege
king did the king's
according to the chamberlain,
word of Memucan: keeper of the
1:22 For he sent women; and let
letters into all their things for
the king's purification be
provinces, into given [them]:
every province 2:4 And let the
according to the maiden which
writing thereof, pleaseth the king
and to every be queen instead
people after of Vashti. And
their language, the thing pleased
that every man the king; and he
should bear rule did so.
in his own house, 2:5 [Now] in
and that [it] Shushan the
should be palace there was
published a certain Jew,
whose name [was] obtained kindness
Mordecai, the son of him; and he
of Jair, the son speedily gave her
of Shimei, the her things for
son of Kish, a purification,
Benjamite; with such things
2:6 Who had been as belonged to
carried away from her, and seven
Jerusalem with maidens, [which
the captivity were] meet to be
which had been given her, out of
carried away with the king's house:
Jeconiah king of and he preferred
Judah, whom her and her maids
Nebuchadnezzar unto the best
the king of [place] of the
Babylon had house of the
carried away. women.
2:7 And he 2:10 Esther had
brought up not showed her
Hadassah, that people nor her
[is], Esther, his kindred: for
uncle's daughter: Mordecai had
for she had charged her that
neither father she should not
nor mother, and show [it].
the maid [was] 2:11 And
fair and Mordecai walked
beautiful; whom every day before
Mordecai, when the court of the
her father and women's house, to
mother were dead, know how Esther
took for his own did, and what
daughter. should become of
2:8 So it came her.
to pass, when the 2:12 Now when
king's every maid's turn
commandment and was come to go in
his decree was to king
heard, and when Ahasuerus, after
many maidens were that she had been
gathered together twelve months,
unto Shushan the according to the
palace, to the manner of the
custody of Hegai, women, (for so
that Esther was were the days of
brought also unto their
the king's house, purifications
to the custody of accomplished, [to
Hegai, keeper of wit], six months
the women. with oil of
2:9 And the myrrh, and six
maiden pleased months with sweet
him, and she odours, and with
[other] things king Ahasuerus
for the purifying into his house
of the women;) royal in the
2:13 Then thus tenth month,
came [every] which [is] the
maiden unto the month Tebeth, in
king; whatsoever the seventh year
she desired was of his reign.
given her to go 2:17 And the
with her out of king loved Esther
the house of the above all the
women unto the women, and she
king's house. obtained grace
2:14 In the and favour in his
evening she went, sight more than
and on the morrow all the virgins;
she returned into so that he set
the second house the royal crown
of the women, to upon her head,
the custody of and made her
Shaashgaz, the queen instead of
king's Vashti.
chamberlain, 2:18 Then the
which kept the king made a great
concubines: she feast unto all
came in unto the his princes and
king no more, his servants,
except the king [even] Esther's
delighted in her, feast; and he
and that she were made a release to
called by name. the provinces,
2:15 Now when and gave gifts,
the turn of according to the
Esther, the state of the
daughter of king.
Abihail the uncle 2:19 And when
of Mordecai, who the virgins were
had taken her for gathered together
his daughter, was the second time,
come to go in then Mordecai sat
unto the king, in the king's
she required gate.
nothing but what 2:20 Esther had
Hegai the king's not [yet] showed
chamberlain, the her kindred nor
keeper of the her people; as
women, appointed. Mordecai had
And Esther charged her: for
obtained favour Esther did the
in the sight of commandment of
all them that Mordecai, like as
looked upon her. when she was
2:16 So Esther brought up with
was taken unto him.
2:21 In those But Mordecai
days, while bowed not, nor
Mordecai sat in did [him]
the king's gate, reverence.
two of the king's 3:3 Then the
chamberlains, king's servants,
Bigthan and which [were] in
Teresh, of those the king's gate,
which kept the said unto
door, were wroth, Mordecai, Why
and sought to lay transgressest
hand on the king thou the king's
Ahasuerus. commandment?
2:22 And the 3:4 Now it came
thing was known to pass, when
to Mordecai, who they spake daily
told [it] unto unto him, and he
Esther the queen; hearkened not
and Esther unto them, that
certified the they told Haman,
king [thereof] in to see whether
Mordecai's name. Mordecai's
2:23 And when matters would
inquisition was stand: for he had
made of the told them that he
matter, it was [was] a Jew.
found out; 3:5 And when
therefore they Haman saw that
were both hanged Mordecai bowed
on a tree: and it not, nor did him
was written in reverence, then
the book of the was Haman full of
chronicles before wrath.
the king. 3:6 And he
3:1 After these thought scorn to
things did king lay hands on
Ahasuerus promote Mordecai alone;
Haman the son of for they had
Hammedatha the showed him the
Agagite, and people of
advanced him, and Mordecai:
set his seat wherefore Haman
above all the sought to destroy
princes that all the Jews that
[were] with him. [were] throughout
3:2 And all the the whole kingdom
king's servants, of Ahasuerus,
that [were] in [even] the people
the king's gate, of Mordecai.
bowed, and 3:7 In the first
reverenced Haman: month, that [is],
for the king had the month Nisan,
so commanded in the twelfth
concerning him. year of king
Ahasuerus, they Haman, The silver
cast Pur, that [is] given to
[is], the lot, thee, the people
before Haman from also, to do with
day to day, and them as it
from month to seemeth good to
month, [to] the thee.
twelfth [month], 3:12 Then were
that [is], the the king's
month Adar. scribes called on
3:8 And Haman the thirteenth
said unto king day of the first
Ahasuerus, There month, and there
is a certain was written
people scattered according to all
abroad and that Haman had
dispersed among commanded unto
the people in all the king's
the provinces of lieutenants, and
thy kingdom; and to the governors
their laws [are] that [were] over
diverse from all every province,
people; neither and to the rulers
keep they the of every people
king's laws: of every province
therefore it [is] according to the
not for the writing thereof,
king's profit to and [to] every
suffer them. people after
3:9 If it please their language;
the king, let it in the name of
be written that king Ahasuerus
they may be was it written,
destroyed: and I and sealed with
will pay ten the king's ring.
thousand talents 3:13 And the
of silver to the letters were sent
hands of those by posts into all
that have the the king's
charge of the provinces, to
business, to destroy, to kill,
bring [it] into and to cause to
the king's perish, all Jews,
treasuries. both young and
3:10 And the old, little
king took his children and
ring from his women, in one
hand, and gave it day, [even] upon
unto Haman the the thirteenth
son of Hammedatha [day] of the
the Agagite, the twelfth month,
Jews' enemy. which is the
3:11 And the month Adar, and
king said unto [to take] the
spoil of them for the Jews, and
a prey. fasting, and
3:14 The copy of weeping, and
the writing for a wailing; and many
commandment to be lay in sackcloth
given in every and ashes.
province was 4:4 So Esther's
published unto maids and her
all people, that chamberlains came
they should be and told [it]
ready against her. Then was the
that day. queen exceedingly
3:15 The posts grieved; and she
went out, being sent raiment to
hastened by the clothe Mordecai,
king's and to take away
commandment, and his sackcloth
the decree was from him: but he
given in Shushan received [it]
the palace. And not.
the king and 4:5 Then called
Haman sat down to Esther for
drink; but the Hatach, [one] of
city Shushan was the king's
perplexed. chamberlains,
4:1 When whom he had
Mordecai appointed to
perceived all attend upon her,
that was done, and gave him a
Mordecai rent his commandment to
clothes, and put Mordecai, to know
on sackcloth with what it [was],
ashes, and went and why it [was].
out into the
midst of the 4:6 So Hatach
city, and cried went forth to
with a loud and a Mordecai unto the
bitter cry; street of the
4:2 And came city, which [was]
even before the before the king's
king's gate: for gate.
none [might] 4:7 And Mordecai
enter into the told him of all
king's gate that had happened
clothed with unto him, and of
sackcloth. the sum of the
4:3 And in every money that Haman
province, had promised to
whithersoever the pay to the king's
king's treasuries for
commandment and the Jews, to
his decree came, destroy them.
[there was] great 4:8 Also he gave
mourning among him the copy of
the writing of Esther's words.
the decree that 4:13 Then
was given at Mordecai
Shushan to commanded to
destroy them, to answer Esther,
show [it] unto Think not with
Esther, and to thyself that thou
declare [it] unto shalt escape in
her, and to the king's house,
charge her that more than all the
she should go in Jews.
unto the king, to 4:14 For if thou
make supplication altogether
unto him, and to holdest thy peace
make request at this time,
before him for [then] shall
her people. there enlargement
4:9 And Hatach and deliverance
came and told arise to the Jews
Esther the words from another
of Mordecai. place; but thou
4:10 Again and thy father's
Esther spake unto house shall be
Hatach, and gave destroyed: and
him commandment who knoweth
unto Mordecai; whether thou art
4:11 All the come to the
king's servants, kingdom for
and the people of [such] a time as
the king's this?
provinces, do 4:15 Then Esther
know, that bade [them]
whosoever, return Mordecai
whether man or [this answer],
woman, shall come 4:16 Go, gather
unto the king together all the
into the inner Jews that are
court, who is not present in
called, [there Shushan, and fast
is] one law of ye for me, and
his to put [him] neither eat nor
to death, except drink three days,
such to whom the night or day: I
king shall hold also and my
out the golden maidens will fast
sceptre, that he likewise; and so
may live: but I will I go in unto
have not been the king, which
called to come in [is] not
unto the king according to the
these thirty law: and if I
days. perish, I perish.
4:12 And they
told to Mordecai 4:17 So Mordecai
went his way, and unto the banquet
did according to that I have
all that Esther prepared for him.
had commanded
him. 5:5 Then the
5:1 Now it came king said, Cause
to pass on the Haman to make
third day, that haste, that he
Esther put on may do as Esther
[her] royal hath said. So the
[apparel], and king and Haman
stood in the came to the
inner court of banquet that
the king's house, Esther had
over against the prepared.
king's house: and 5:6 And the king
the king sat upon said unto Esther
his royal throne at the banquet of
in the royal wine, What [is]
house, over thy petition? and
against the gate it shall be
of the house. granted thee: and
5:2 And it was what [is] thy
so, when the king request? even to
saw Esther the the half of the
queen standing in kingdom it shall
the court, [that] be performed.
she obtained 5:7 Then
favour in his answered Esther,
sight: and the and said, My
king held out to petition and my
Esther the golden request [is];
sceptre that 5:8 If I have
[was] in his found favour in
hand. So Esther the sight of the
drew near, and king, and if it
touched the top please the king
of the sceptre. to grant my
5:3 Then said petition, and to
the king unto perform my
her, What wilt request, let the
thou, queen king and Haman
Esther? and what come to the
[is] thy request? banquet that I
it shall be even shall prepare for
given thee to the them, and I will
half of the do to morrow as
kingdom. the king hath
5:4 And Esther said.
answered, If [it 5:9 Then went
seem] good unto Haman forth that
the king, let the day joyful and
king and Haman with a glad
come this day heart: but when
Haman saw and all his
Mordecai in the friends unto him,
king's gate, that Let a gallows be
he stood not up, made of fifty
nor moved for cubits high, and
him, he was full to morrow speak
of indignation thou unto the
against Mordecai. king that
Mordecai may be
5:10 hanged thereon:
Nevertheless then go thou in
Haman refrained merrily with the
himself: and when king unto the
he came home, he banquet. And the
sent and called thing pleased
for his friends, Haman; and he
and Zeresh his caused the
wife. gallows to be
5:11 And Haman made.
told them of the 6:1 On that
glory of his night could not
riches, and the the king sleep,
multitude of his and he commanded
children, and all to bring the book
[the things] of records of the
wherein the king chronicles; and
had promoted him, they were read
and how he had before the king.
advanced him 6:2 And it was
above the princes found written,
and servants of that Mordecai had
the king. told of Bigthana
5:12 Haman said and Teresh, two
moreover, Yea, of the king's
Esther the queen chamberlains, the
did let no man keepers of the
come in with the door, who sought
king unto the to lay hand on
banquet that she the king
had prepared but Ahasuerus.
myself; and to 6:3 And the king
morrow am I said, What honour
invited unto her and dignity hath
also with the been done to
king. Mordecai for
5:13 Yet all this? Then said
this availeth me the king's
nothing, so long servants that
as I see Mordecai ministered unto
the Jew sitting him, There is
at the king's nothing done for
gate. him.
5:14 Then said 6:4 And the king
Zeresh his wife said, Who [is] in
the court? Now of the king's
Haman was come most noble
into the outward princes, that
court of the they may array
king's house, to the man [withal]
speak unto the whom the king
king to hang delighteth to
Mordecai on the honour, and bring
gallows that he him on horseback
had prepared for through the
him. street of the
6:5 And the city, and
king's servants proclaim before
said unto him, him, Thus shall
Behold, Haman it be done to the
standeth in the man whom the king
court. And the delighteth to
king said, Let honour.
him come in. 6:10 Then the
6:6 So Haman king said to
came in. And the Haman, Make
king said unto haste, [and] take
him, What shall the apparel and
be done unto the the horse, as
man whom the king thou hast said,
delighteth to and do even so to
honour? Now Haman Mordecai the Jew,
thought in his that sitteth at
heart, To whom the king's gate:
would the king let nothing fail
delight to do of all that thou
honour more than hast spoken.
to myself? 6:11 Then took
6:7 And Haman Haman the apparel
answered the and the horse,
king, For the man and arrayed
whom the king Mordecai, and
delighteth to brought him on
honour, horseback through
6:8 Let the the street of the
royal apparel be city, and
brought which the proclaimed before
king [useth] to him, Thus shall
wear, and the it be done unto
horse that the the man whom the
king rideth upon, king delighteth
and the crown to honour.
royal which is 6:12 And
set upon his Mordecai came
head: again to the
6:9 And let this king's gate. But
apparel and horse Haman hasted to
be delivered to his house
the hand of one mourning, and
having his head said, If I have
covered. found favour in
6:13 And Haman thy sight, O
told Zeresh his king, and if it
wife and all his please the king,
friends every let my life be
[thing] that had given me at my
befallen him. petition, and my
Then said his people at my
wise men and request:
Zeresh his wife 7:4 For we are
unto him, If sold, I and my
Mordecai [be] of people, to be
the seed of the destroyed, to be
Jews, before whom slain, and to
thou hast begun perish. But if we
to fall, thou had been sold for
shalt not prevail bondmen and
against him, but bondwomen, I had
shalt surely fall held my tongue,
before him. although the
6:14 And while enemy could not
they [were] yet countervail the
talking with him, king's damage.
came the king's 7:5 Then the
chamberlains, and king Ahasuerus
hasted to bring answered and said
Haman unto the unto Esther the
banquet that queen, Who is he,
Esther had and where is he,
prepared. that durst
7:1 So the king presume in his
and Haman came to heart to do so?
banquet with 7:6 And Esther
Esther the queen. said, The
adversary and
7:2 And the king enemy [is] this
said again unto wicked Haman.
Esther on the Then Haman was
second day at the afraid before the
banquet of wine, king and the
What [is] thy queen.
petition, queen 7:7 And the king
Esther? and it arising from the
shall be granted banquet of wine
thee: and what in his wrath
[is] thy request? [went] into the
and it shall be palace garden:
performed, [even] and Haman stood
to the half of up to make
the kingdom. request for his
7:3 Then Esther life to Esther
the queen the queen; for he
answered and saw that there
was evil the queen. And
determined Mordecai came
against him by before the king;
the king. for Esther had
7:8 Then the told what he
king returned out [was] unto her.
of the palace 8:2 And the king
garden into the took off his
place of the ring, which he
banquet of wine; had taken from
and Haman was Haman, and gave
fallen upon the it unto Mordecai.
bed whereon And Esther set
Esther [was]. Mordecai over the
Then said the house of Haman.
king, Will he 8:3 And Esther
force the queen spake yet again
also before me in before the king,
the house? As the and fell down at
word went out of his feet, and
the king's mouth, besought him with
they covered tears to put away
Haman's face. the mischief of
7:9 And Haman the
Harbonah, one of Agagite, and his
the chamberlains, device that he
said before the had devised
king, Behold against the Jews.
also, the gallows
fifty cubits 8:4 Then the
high, which Haman king held out the
had made for golden sceptre
Mordecai, who had toward Esther. So
spoken good for Esther arose, and
the king, stood before the
standeth in the king,
house of Haman. 8:5 And said, If
Then the king it please the
said, Hang him king, and if I
thereon. have found favour
7:10 So they in his sight, and
hanged Haman on the thing [seem]
the gallows that right before the
he had prepared king, and I [be]
for Mordecai. pleasing in his
Then was the eyes, let it be
king's wrath written to
pacified. reverse the
8:1 On that day letters devised
did the king by Haman the son
Ahasuerus give of Hammedatha the
the house of Agagite, which he
Haman the Jews' wrote to destroy
enemy unto Esther the Jews which
[are] in all the the lieutenants,
king's provinces: and the deputies
and rulers of the
8:6 For how can provinces which
I endure to see [are] from India
the evil that unto Ethiopia, an
shall come unto hundred twenty
my people? or how and seven
can I endure to provinces, unto
see the every province
destruction of my according to the
kindred? writing thereof,
8:7 Then the and unto every
king Ahasuerus people after
said unto Esther their language,
the queen and to and to the Jews
Mordecai the Jew, according to
Behold, I have their writing,
given Esther the and according to
house of Haman, their language.
and him they have 8:10 And he
hanged upon the wrote in the king
gallows, because Ahasuerus' name,
he laid his hand and sealed [it]
upon the Jews. with the king's
8:8 Write ye ring, and sent
also for the letters by posts
Jews, as it on horseback,
liketh you, in [and] riders on
the king's name, mules, camels,
and seal [it] [and] young
with the king's dromedaries:
ring: for the 8:11 Wherein the
writing which is king granted the
written in the Jews which [were]
king's name, and in every city to
sealed with the gather themselves
king's ring, may together, and to
no man reverse. stand for their
8:9 Then were life, to destroy,
the king's to slay, and to
scribes called at cause to perish,
that time in the all the power of
third month, that the people and
[is], the month province that
Sivan, on the would assault
three and them, [both]
twentieth [day] little ones and
thereof; and it women, and [to
was written take] the spoil
according to all of them for a
that Mordecai prey,
commanded unto 8:12 Upon one
the Jews, and to day in all the
provinces of king whithersoever the
Ahasuerus, king's
[namely], upon commandment and
the thirteenth his decree came,
[day] of the the Jews had joy
twelfth month, and gladness, a
which [is] the feast and a good
month Adar. day. And many of
8:13 The copy of the people of the
the writing for a land became Jews;
commandment to be for the fear of
given in every the Jews fell
province [was] upon them.
published unto 9:1 Now in the
all people, and twelfth month,
that the Jews that [is], the
should be ready month Adar, on
against that day the thirteenth
to avenge day of the same,
themselves on when the king's
their enemies. commandment and
8:14 [So] the his decree drew
posts that rode near to be put in
upon mules [and] execution, in the
camels went out, day that the
being hastened enemies of the
and pressed on by Jews hoped to
the king's have power over
commandment. And them, (though it
the decree was was turned to the
given at Shushan contrary, that
the palace. the Jews had rule
8:15 And over them that
Mordecai went out hated them;)
from the presence 9:2 The Jews
of the king in gathered
royal apparel of themselves
blue and white, together in their
and with a great cities throughout
crown of gold, all the provinces
and with a of the king
garment of fine Ahasuerus, to lay
linen and purple: hand on such as
and the city of sought their
Shushan rejoiced hurt: and no man
and was glad. could withstand
8:16 The Jews them; for the
had light, and fear of them fell
gladness, and upon all people.
joy, and honour. 9:3 And all the
8:17 And in rulers of the
every province, provinces, and
and in every the lieutenants,
city, and the deputies,
and officers of the number of
the king, helped those that were
the Jews; because slain in Shushan
the fear of the palace was
Mordecai fell brought before
upon them. the king.
9:4 For Mordecai 9:12 And the
[was] great in king said unto
the king's house, Esther the queen,
and his fame went The Jews have
out throughout slain and
all the destroyed five
provinces: for hundred men in
this man Mordecai Shushan the
waxed greater and palace, and the
greater. ten sons of
9:5 Thus the Haman; what have
Jews smote all they done in the
their enemies rest of the
with the stroke king's provinces?
of the sword, and now what [is] thy
slaughter, and petition? and it
destruction, and shall be granted
did what they thee: or what
would unto those [is] thy request
that hated them. further? and it
9:6 And in shall be done.
Shushan the 9:13 Then said
palace the Jews Esther, If it
slew and please the king,
destroyed five let it be granted
hundred men. to the Jews which
9:7 And [are] in Shushan
Parshandatha, and to do to morrow
Dalphon, and also according
Aspatha, unto this day's
9:8 And Poratha, decree, and let
and Adalia, and Haman's ten sons
Aridatha, be hanged upon
9:9 And the gallows.
Parmashta, and 9:14 And the
Arisai, and king commanded it
Aridai, and so to be done:
Vajezatha, and the decree
9:10 The ten was given at
sons of Haman the Shushan; and they
son of hanged Haman's
Hammedatha, the ten sons.
enemy of the 9:15 For the
Jews, slew they; Jews that [were]
but on the spoil in Shushan
laid they not gathered
their hand. themselves
9:11 On that day together on the
fourteenth day made the
also of the month fourteenth day of
Adar, and slew the month Adar [a
three hundred men day of] gladness
at Shushan; but and feasting, and
on the prey they a good day, and
laid not their of sending
hand. portions one to
9:16 But the another.
other Jews that 9:20 And
[were] in the Mordecai wrote
king's provinces these things, and
gathered sent letters unto
themselves all the Jews that
together, and [were] in all the
stood for their provinces of the
lives, and had king Ahasuerus,
rest from their [both] nigh and
enemies, and slew far,
of their foes 9:21 To stablish
seventy and five [this] among
thousand, but them, that they
they laid not should keep the
their hands on fourteenth day of
the prey, the month Adar,
9:17 On the and the fifteenth
thirteenth day of day of the same,
the month Adar; yearly,
and on the 9:22 As the days
fourteenth day of wherein the Jews
the same rested rested from their
they, and made it enemies, and the
a day of feasting month which was
and gladness. turned unto them
9:18 But the from sorrow to
Jews that [were] joy, and from
at Shushan mourning into a
assembled good day: that
together on the they should make
thirteenth [day] them days of
thereof, and on feasting and joy,
the fourteenth and of sending
thereof; and on portions one to
the fifteenth another, and
[day] of the same gifts to the
they rested, and poor.
made it a day of 9:23 And the
feasting and Jews undertook to
gladness. do as they had
9:19 Therefore begun, and as
the Jews of the Mordecai had
villages, that written unto
dwelt in the them;
unwalled towns, 9:24 Because
Haman the son of their [appointed]
Hammedatha, the time every year;
Agagite, the 9:28 And [that]
enemy of all the these days
Jews, had devised [should be]
against the Jews remembered and
to destroy them, kept throughout
and had cast Pur, every generation,
that [is], the every family,
lot, to consume every province,
them, and to and every city;
destroy them; and [that] these
9:25 But when days of Purim
[Esther] came should not fail
before the king, from among the
he commanded by Jews, nor the
letters that his memorial of them
wicked device, perish from their
which he devised seed.
against the Jews, 9:29 Then Esther
should return the queen, the
upon his own daughter of
head, and that he Abihail, and
and his sons Mordecai the Jew,
should be hanged wrote with all
on the gallows. authority, to
9:26 Wherefore confirm this
they called these second letter of
days Purim after Purim.
the name of Pur. 9:30 And he sent
Therefore for all the letters unto
the words of this all the Jews, to
letter, and [of the hundred
that] which they twenty and seven
had seen provinces of the
concerning this kingdom of
matter, and which Ahasuerus, [with]
had come unto words of peace
them, and truth,
9:27 The Jews 9:31 To confirm
ordained, and these days of
took upon them, Purim in their
and upon their times
seed, and upon [appointed],
all such as according as
joined themselves Mordecai the Jew
unto them, so as and Esther the
it should not queen had
fail, that they enjoined them,
would keep these and as they had
two days decreed for
according to themselves and
their writing, for their seed,
and according to the matters of
the fastings and
their cry.
9:32 And the
decree of Esther
confirmed these
matters of Purim;
and it was
written in the
book.
10:1 And the
king Ahasuerus
laid a tribute
upon the land,
and [upon] the
isles of the sea.
10:2 And all the
acts of his power
and of his might,
and the
declaration of
the greatness of
Mordecai,
whereunto the
king advanced
him, [are] they
not written in
the book of the
chronicles of the
kings of Media
and Persia?
10:3 For
Mordecai the Jew
[was] next unto
king Ahasuerus,
and great among
the Jews, and
accepted of the
multitude of his
brethren, seeking
the wealth of his
people, and
speaking peace to
all his seed.
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