17;
17 So Mordecai went away and carried out all
of Esther’s instructions.
(8)
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9 Hathak
went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said.
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8 He
also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had
been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told
him to instruct her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead
with him for her people.
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16 “Go, gather together all the
Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days,
night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I
will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I
perish.” (7)
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7 Mordecai told him everything that had
happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay
into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. (7)
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13 he sent back this answer: “Do not think
that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. (4)
14 For
if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will
arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who
knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
15 Then
Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:
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4 When Esther’s eunuchs and female
attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She
sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not
accept them. (4)
5 Then
Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and
ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
6 So
Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the
king’s gate.
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10 Then she instructed him to say to
Mordecai,
(1)
11 “All
the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any
man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned
the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the
gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since
I was called to go to the king.”
12 When
Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai,
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Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help
4 When
Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth
and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. (1)
2 But
he went only as far as the king’s gate, 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, there was great
mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in
sackcloth and ashes.
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Esther 5
13;
13 But all this gives me no
satisfaction as long
as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at
the
king’s gate.” (4)
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10 Nevertheless, Haman
restrained himself and went home. Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his
wife,
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Haman’s Rage
Against Mordecai
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 against Mordecai.
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8 If
the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition
and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I
will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.” (8)
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7 Esther replied, “My
petition and my request is this:
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6 As they were
drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “Now what is your petition? It will
be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be
granted.”
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14 His
wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a
height of fifty cubits, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai
impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This
suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up. (5)
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5 “Bring
Haman at once,” the king said, “so that we may do what Esther asks.” So the
king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared. (5)
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11 Haman
boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king
had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and
officials.
(2)
12 “And that’s not
all,” Haman added. “I’m the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the
king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king
tomorrow.
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Esther’s Request to
the King
5 On the third day
Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in
front of the king’s 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 approached and touched
the tip of the scepter.
(2)
3 Then the king
asked, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the
kingdom, it will be given you.”
4 “If it pleases the
king,” replied Esther, “let the king, together with Haman, come today to a
banquet I have prepared for him.”
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14;
14 While they were still talking with him, the
king’s eunuchs arrived and
hurried Haman
away to the banquet Esther had
prepared.
(5)
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9 Then
let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes.
Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse
through the city streets, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the
man the king delights to honor!’”
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8 have them bring a royal robe the king
has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its
head.
(8)
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6 When
Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king
delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king
would rather honor than me?”
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5 His
attendants answered, “Haman is standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” the king
ordered.
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12 Afterward Mordecai returned to the
king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief, (3)
13 and
told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.
His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish
origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”
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3 “What honor and recognition has
Mordecai received for this?” the king asked. “Nothing has been done for him,”
his attendants answered. (3)
4 The
king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of
the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set
up for him.
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10 “Go at once,” the king commanded
Haman. “Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai
the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything you have
recommended.” (1)
11 So
Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback
through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”
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6 That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles,
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.
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