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ES-3:9 If it please 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, to bring

[it] into the king's treasuries. <bring> <business> <charge>

ES-3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it

unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

ES-3:11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to

thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to

thee. <also> <do> <given> <good> <haman> <king> <people> <said>

ES-3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth

day of the first month, and there was written according to all

that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the

governors that [were] over every province, and to the rulers of

every people of every province according to the writing thereof,

and [to] every people after their language; in the name of king

Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

ES-3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's

provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews,

both young and old, little children and women, in one day,

[even] upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is

the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey.

ES-3:14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in

every province was published unto all people, that they should

be ready against that day. <against> <all> <commandment> <copy>

ES-3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's

commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And

the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was

perplexed. <being> <city> <commandment> <decree> <down> <drink>

ES-4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent

his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into

the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

ES-4:2 And came even before the king's gate:for none [might]

enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. <before>

ES-4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's

commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning

among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many

lay in sackcloth and ashes. <among> <ashes> <came> <commandment>

ES-4:4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told [it]

her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent

raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from

him:but he received [it] not. <away> <came> <chamberlains>

ES-4:5 Then called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king's

chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave

him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was] , and why

it [was] . <appointed> <attend> <called> <chamberlains>

ES-4:6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the

city, which [was] before the king's gate. <before> <city>

ES-4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him,

and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to

the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. <all>

ES-4:8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree

that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show [it] unto

Esther, and to declare [it] unto her, and to charge her that she

should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and

to make request before him for her people. <also> <before>

ES-4:9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

ES-4:10 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment

unto Mordecai; <again> <commandment> <esther> <gave> <hatach>

ES-4:11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's

provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall

come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called,

[there is] one law of his to put [him] to death, except such to

whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may

live:but I have not been called to come in unto the king these

thirty days. <all> <been> <called> <come> <court> <days> <death>

ES-4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words. <mordecai>

ES-4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with

thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than

all the Jews. <all> <answer> <commanded> <escape> <esther>

<with>

ES-4:14 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? <altogether> <another> <arise> <art>

ES-4:15 Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer] ,

ES-4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in

Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three

days, night or day:I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and

so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the

law:and if I perish, I perish. <all> <also> <are> <day> <days>

ES-4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that

Esther had commanded him. <all> <commanded> <did> <esther> <had>

ES-5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on

[her] royal [apparel] , and stood in the inner court of the

king's house, over against the king's house:and the king sat

upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate

of the house. <against> <apparel> <came> <court> <day> <esther>

ES-5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen

standing in the court, [that] she obtained favour in his sight:

and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that [was] in

his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the

sceptre. <court> <drew> <esther> <favour> <golden> <hand> <held>

ES-5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen

Esther? and what [is] thy request? it shall be even given thee

to the half of the kingdom. <esther> <even> <given> <half>

ES-5:4 And Esther answered, If [it seem] good unto the king, let

the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have

prepared for him. <answered> <banquet> <come> <day> <esther>

ES-5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he

may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the

banquet that Esther had prepared. <banquet> <came> <cause> <do>

ES-5:6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine,

What [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee:and what

[is] thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be

performed. <banquet> <esther> <even> <granted> <half> <king>

ES-5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my

request [is] ; <answered> <esther> <petition> <request> <said>

<then>

ES-5:8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if

it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my

request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall

prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

ES-5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad

heart:but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he

stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation

against Mordecai. <against> <day> <forth> <full> <gate> <glad>

ES-5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself:and when he came

home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

ES-5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the

multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king

had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes

and servants of the king. <advanced> <all> <children> <glory>

ES-5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no

man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared

but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the

king. <also> <banquet> <come> <did> <esther> <had> <haman>

ES-5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see

Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. <all> <availeth>

ES-5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him,

Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak

thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon:then go

thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing

pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. <all>

ES-6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded

to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were

read before the king. <before> <book> <bring> <chronicles>

ES-6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of

Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers

of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

ES-6:3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done

to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that

ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. <been>

<what>

ES-6:4 And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman was

come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto

the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared

for him. <come> <court> <gallows> <had> <haman> <hang> <him>

ES-6:5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman

standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.

ES-6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall

be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now

Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do

honour more than to myself? <came> <delight> <delighteth> <do>

ES-6:7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king

delighteth to honour, <answered> <delighteth> <haman> <honour>

ES-6:8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth]

to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown

royal which is set upon his head:<apparel> <brought> <crown>

ES-6:9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand

of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the

man [withal] whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him

on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before

him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth

to honour. <apparel> <array> <before> <bring> <city>

ES-6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, [and] take the

apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to

Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate:let nothing

fail of all that thou hast spoken. <all> <apparel> <do> <even>

ES-6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed

Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the

city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the

man whom the king delighteth to honour. <apparel> <arrayed>

ES-6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman

hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

ES-6:13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every

[thing] that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh

his wife unto him, If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews,

before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail

against him, but shalt surely fall before him. <against> <all>

ES-6:14 And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the

king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet

that Esther had prepared. <banquet> <bring> <came>

ES-7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the

queen. <banquet> <came> <esther> <haman> <king> <queen> <so>

<with>

ES-7:2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at

the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition, queen Esther? and

it shall be granted thee:and what [is] thy request? and it shall

be performed, [even] to the half of the kingdom. <again>

ES-7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found

favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my

life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

ES-7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be

slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and

bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not

countervail the king's damage. <although> <are> <been> <bondmen>

ES-7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the

queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his

heart to do so? <ahasuerus> <answered> <do> <durst> <esther>

ES-7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked

Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

ES-7:7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his

wrath [went] into the palace garden:and Haman stood up to make

request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there

was evil determined against him by the king. <against> <arising>

ES-7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the

place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed

whereon Esther [was] . Then said the king, Will he force the

queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the

king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. <also> <banquet> <bed>

ES-7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the

king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman

had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king,

standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him

thereon. <also> <before> <behold> <chamberlains> <cubits>

ES-7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared

for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. <gallows>

ES-8:1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of

Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came

before the king; for Esther had told what he [was] unto her.

<what>

ES-8:2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from

Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over

the house of Haman. <esther> <gave> <had> <haman> <house> <king>

ES-8:3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down

at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the

mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had

devised against the Jews. <agagite> <again> <against> <away>

ES-8:4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther.

So Esther arose, and stood before the king, <arose> <before>

ES-8:5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have found

favour in his sight, and the thing [seem] right before the king,

and I [be] pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse

the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite,

which he wrote to destroy the Jews which [are] in all the king's

provinces:<agagite> <all> <are> <before> <destroy> <devised>

<wrote>

ES-8:6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto

my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my

kindred? <can> <come> <destruction> <endure> <evil> <how>

ES-8:7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to

Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman,

and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his

hand upon the Jews. <ahasuerus> <because> <behold> <esther>

ES-8:8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the

king's name, and seal [it] with the king's ring:for the writing

which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's

ring, may no man reverse. <also> <jews> <liketh> <man> <may>

ES-8:9 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. <after> <all> <are>

ES-8:10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed

[it] with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on

horseback, [and] riders on mules, camels, [and] young

dromedaries:<camels> <dromedaries> <horseback> <king> <letters>

ES-8:11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which [were] in every

city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life,

to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of

the people and province that would assault them, [both] little

ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey,

ES-8:12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,

[namely] , upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which

[is] the month Adar. <ahasuerus> <all> <day> <king> <month>

ES-8:13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in

every province [was] published unto all people, and that the

Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on

their enemies. <against> <all> <avenge> <commandment> <copy>

ES-8:14 [So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went

out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment.

And the decree was given at Shushan the palace. <being> <camels>

ES-8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in

royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold,

and with a garment of fine linen and purple:and the city of

Shushan rejoiced and was glad. <apparel> <blue> <city> <crown>

<with>

ES-8:16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

ES-8:17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever

the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and

gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the

land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

ES-9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that [is] , the month Adar, on

the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and

his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the

enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, ( though it

was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them

that hated them; ) <commandment> <contrary> <day> <decree>

ES-9:2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities

throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand

on such as sought their hurt:and no man could withstand them;

for the fear of them fell upon all people. <ahasuerus> <all>

ES-9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants,

and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews;

because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. <all> <because>

ES-9:4 For Mordecai [was] great in the king's house, and his

fame went out throughout all the provinces:for this man Mordecai

waxed greater and greater. <all> <fame> <great> <greater>

<went>

ES-9:5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of

the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they

would unto those that hated them. <all> <destruction> <did>

ES-9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed

five hundred men. <destroyed> <five> <hundred> <jews> <men>

ES-9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, <aspatha>

ES-9:8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, <aridatha>

ES-9:9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

ES-9:10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy

of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their

hand. <enemy> <haman> <hammedatha> <hand> <jews> <laid> <on>

ES-9:11 On that day the number of those that were slain in

Shushan the palace was brought before the king. <before>

<those>

ES-9:12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have

slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and

the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the

king's provinces? now what [is] thy petition? and it shall be

granted thee:or what [is] thy request further? and it shall be

done. <destroyed> <done> <esther> <five> <further> <granted>

ES-9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be

granted to the Jews which [are] in Shushan to do to morrow also

according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be

hanged upon the gallows. <also> <are> <decree> <do> <esther>

ES-9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done:and the decree

was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

ES-9:15 For the Jews that [were] in Shushan gathered themselves

together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew

three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not

their hand. <also> <day> <fourteenth> <gathered> <hand>

ES-9:16 But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces

gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had

rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five

thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey, <enemies>

ES-9:17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the

fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of

feasting and gladness. <day> <feasting> <fourteenth> <gladness>

ES-9:18 But the Jews that [were] at Shushan assembled together

on the thirteenth [day] thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof;

and on the fifteenth [day] of the same they rested, and made it

a day of feasting and gladness. <assembled> <day> <feasting>

ES-9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the

unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day

of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending

portions one to another. <another> <day> <dwelt> <feasting>

ES-9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto

all the Jews that [were] in all the provinces of the king

Ahasuerus, [both] nigh and far, <ahasuerus> <all> <both> <far>

ES-9:21 To stablish [this] among them, that they should keep the

fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the

same, yearly, <among> <day> <fifteenth> <fourteenth> <keep>

ES-9:22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies,

and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and

from mourning into a good day:that they should make them days of

feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and

gifts to the poor. <another> <day> <days> <enemies> <feasting>

ES-9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as

Mordecai had written unto them; <begun> <do> <had> <jews>

ES-9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the

enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy

them, and had cast Pur, that [is] , the lot, to consume them,

and to destroy them; <agagite> <against> <all> <because> <cast>

ES-9:25 But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by

letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the

Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons

should be hanged on the gallows. <against> <before> <came>

ES-9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of

Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and [of that]

which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come

unto them, <after> <all> <called> <come> <concerning> <days>

ES-9:27 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; <all> <appointed> <days> <every> <fail> <jews> <joined>

ES-9:28 And [that] these days [should be] remembered and kept

throughout every generation, every family, every province, and

every city; and [that] these days of Purim should not fail from

among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

ES-9:29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and

Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this

second letter of Purim. <all> <authority> <confirm> <daughter>

ES-9:30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the

hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,

[with] words of peace and truth, <ahasuerus> <all> <hundred>

ES-9:31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times

[appointed] , according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen

had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and

for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

ES-9:32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of

Purim; and it was written in the book. <book> <confirmed>

ES-10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and

[upon] the isles of the sea. <ahasuerus> <isles> <king> <laid>

ES-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? <advanced> <all>

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