ESTHER 9:20-22: And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews . . . to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar, . . . as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for...
ESTHER 8:17 : And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a holiday. Then many of the people of the land became Jews, because fear of the Jews fell upon them. Have you noticed how much...
ESTHER 8:9-10 : So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded. . . . And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed it...
ESTHER 7:8-10 : When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?” As the word left the king’s...
ESTHER 7:5-6 : Then King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?” And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and...
ESTHER 6:6 : So Haman came in, and the king asked him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?” Divers in Acapulco, Mexico, daily leap from the 87.5″foot-high...
ESTHER 6:2-3 : And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the door keepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. Then the king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” And the...
ESTHER 5:14 : Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the thing pleased Haman;...
ESTHER 5:11 : Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, all the ways in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king. A proud woodpecker was tapping away at a dead tree...
ESTHER 5:3 : And the king said to her, “What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you up to half my kingdom!” Among those who served in the court of Alexander the Great was a famous philosopher who had outstanding ability but...