Does Esther know that Haman wants to hang her uncle? If so, I think she has something up her sleeve. Is something going to happen to Haman? “So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, […]
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Whenever the king makes a decree that’s it, so are they going to kill Mordecai? How is Esther going to deal with that? “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
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Summary of the Book of Ezra Ezra is a book of Narrative History and Genealogies. Key personalities include Cyrus, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Darius I, Artaxerxes I, and Zerubbabel. Ezra’s purpose was to accurately record the events of the return from the Babylonian exile, after a seventy-year period and the events that surround the rebuilding of
The king was Greek, and Esther a Jew, and they didn’t do things like that back then. You must have had Your hand in it to make it work. “After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that
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It appears that Ezra got things put in order, is it going to stay that way? “Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of
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