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    <book number='17' name='Esther' abbreviation='Esth' testament='old'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='1931'>this</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 1912'>India</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3568'>Ethiopia</strongs>, <em>over</em> a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>:) </verse>
            <verse number='2'><em>That</em> in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'>In the <strongs hebrew='7969'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='2428'>power</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4074'>Media</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6579'>nobles</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, <em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him: </verse>
            <verse number='4'>When he <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3519'>glorious</strongs><strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='8597'>excellent</strongs><strongs hebrew='1420'>majesty</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, <em>even</em> a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4390'>expired</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>, both unto <strongs hebrew='4480 1419'>great</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1594'>garden</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1055'>palace</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'><em>Where</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='2353'>white</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3768'>green</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8504'>blue</strongs>, <em>hangings</em> , <strongs hebrew='270'>fastened</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2256'>cords</strongs>of fine <strongs hebrew='948'>linen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='713'>purple</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='1550'>rings</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8336'>marble</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='4296'>beds</strongs><em>were</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7531'>pavement</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='923'>red</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8336'>blue</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1858'>white</strongs>, and black <strongs hebrew='5508'>marble</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And they gave <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='8248'>drink</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, (the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>being <strongs hebrew='8138'>diverse</strongs>one from <strongs hebrew='4480 3627'>another</strongs>,) and <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7227'>abundance</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='3027'>state</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='8360'>drinking</strongs><em>was</em> according to the <strongs hebrew='1881'>law</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='597'>compel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3245'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7227'>officers</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to every <strongs hebrew='376 376'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7522'>pleasure</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Also</strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs><em>in</em> the <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>belonged</em> to <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>On the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2895'>merry</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='4104'>Mehuman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='968'>Biztha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2726'>Harbona</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='903'>Bigtha</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5'>Abagtha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2242'>Zethar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3752'>Carcas</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8334'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='11'>To <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='3804'>crown</strongs><strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7200'>show</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3308'>beauty</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>fair</strongs>to look <strongs hebrew='4758'>on</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>But the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs><strongs hebrew='3985'>refused</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 3027'>by</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>: therefore was the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7107'>wroth</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='2534'>anger</strongs><strongs hebrew='1197'>burned</strongs>in him. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to the wise <strongs hebrew='2450'>men</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6256'>times</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>manner</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='1881'>law</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1779'>judgment</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='7138'>next</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3771'>Carshena</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8369'>Shethar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='133'>Admatha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8659'>Tarshish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4825'>Meres</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4826'>Marsena</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='4462'>Memucan</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4074'>Media</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, <em>and</em> which <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='1881'>law</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 834'>because</strongs>she hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>performed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3982'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='4462'>Memucan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>done <strongs hebrew='5753'>wrong</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><em>this</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>deed</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>shall come <strongs hebrew='3318'>abroad</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, so that they shall <strongs hebrew='959'>despise</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1167'>husbands</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, when it shall be <strongs hebrew='559'>reported</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>to be brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, but she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><em>Likewise</em> shall the <strongs hebrew='8282'>ladies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4074'>Media</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>have heard <strongs hebrew='8085'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>deed</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>. Thus <em>shall</em> <em>there</em> <em>arise</em> too <strongs hebrew='1767'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='963'>contempt</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2895 5921'>please</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, let there <strongs hebrew='3318'>go</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs>him, and let it be <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='1881'>laws</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persians</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4074'>Medes</strongs>, that it be <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>altered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>That</strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs>more <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>; and let the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>her royal <strongs hebrew='4438'>estate</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='7468'>another</strongs>that is <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>she. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6599'>decree</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='8085'>published</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4438'>empire</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs>,) <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='1167'>husbands</strongs><strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>, both to <strongs hebrew='4480 1419'>great</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>saying</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190 5869'>pleased</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4462'>Memucan</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='22'>For he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='5971 5971'>people</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='3956'>language</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>should</strongs>bear <strongs hebrew='8323'>rule</strongs>in his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and that <em>it</em> should be <strongs hebrew='1696'>published</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='3956'>language</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='310'>After</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7918'>appeased</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='2142'>remembered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1504'>decreed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8334'>ministered</strongs>unto him, Let there be <strongs hebrew='2896 4758'>fair</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='1330'>virgins</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And let the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>appoint</strongs><strongs hebrew='6496'>officers</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, that they may gather <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896 4758'>fair</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='1330'>virgins</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>custody</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1896'>Hege</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>; and let their things for <strongs hebrew='8562'>purification</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs><em>them</em> : </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And let the <strongs hebrew='5291'>maiden</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190 5869'>pleaseth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='4427'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>instead</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190 5869'>pleased</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><em>Now</em> in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2971'>Jair</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='1145'>Benjamite</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='834'>Who</strongs>had been carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>had been carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3204'>Jeconiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>had carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he brought <strongs hebrew='1961 539'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1919'>Hadassah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='1730'>uncle</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5291'>maid</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3303 8389'>fair</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2896 4758'>beautiful</strongs>; whom <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, when her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4194'>dead</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>for his own <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>So it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>, and when <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>maidens</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>custody</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1896'>Hegai</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3947'>brought</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>custody</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1896'>Hegai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='5291'>maiden</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190 5869'>pleased</strongs>him, and she <strongs hebrew='5375'>obtained</strongs><strongs hebrew='2617'>kindness</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>of</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='926'>speedily</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her things for <strongs hebrew='8562'>purification</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>such things as <strongs hebrew='4490'>belonged</strongs>to her, and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>maidens</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7200'>meet</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>her, out of the king's <strongs hebrew='4480 1004 4428'>house</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='8138'>preferred</strongs>her and her <strongs hebrew='5291'>maids</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='2896'>best</strongs><em>place</em> of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>nor her <strongs hebrew='4138'>kindred</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>charged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>her</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>she should <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='3605 3117 3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>how <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>did</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='6213'>become</strongs>of her. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Now when every <strongs hebrew='5291 5291'>maid</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8447'>turn</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, after <strongs hebrew='4480 7093'>that</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1881'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>were the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4795'>purifications</strongs><strongs hebrew='4390'>accomplished</strongs>, <em>to</em> <em>wit</em> , <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4753'>myrrh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>with sweet <strongs hebrew='1314'>odors</strongs>, and with <em>other</em> things for the <strongs hebrew='8562'>purification</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='2088'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><em>every</em> <strongs hebrew='5291'>maiden</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whatsoever</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='559'>desired</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>her to <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>her out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>In the <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>, and on the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>custody</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8190'>Shaashgaz</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlain</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubines</strongs>: she came <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>except</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighted</strongs>in her, and that she were <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Now when the <strongs hebrew='8447'>turn</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='32'>Abihail</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1730'>uncle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>her for his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>, was <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='1245'>required</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='1896'>Hegai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlain</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>appointed</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961 5375'>obtained</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>them that <strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>upon her. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>So <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6224'>tenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='2887'>Tebeth</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>above <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, and she <strongs hebrew='5375'>obtained</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>grace</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2617'>favor</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>more than <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1330'>virgins</strongs>; so that he <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='3804'>crown</strongs>upon her <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and made her <strongs hebrew='4427'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>instead</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2060'>Vashti</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2010'>release</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='4864'>gifts</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='3027'>state</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And when the <strongs hebrew='1330'>virgins</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>the second <strongs hebrew='8145'>time</strongs>, then <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><em>yet</em> <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='4138'>kindred</strongs>nor her <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>charged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>her</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3982'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, like <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>when she <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='545'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, while <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='904'>Bigthan</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8657'>Teresh</strongs>, of those which <strongs hebrew='4480 8104'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5592'>door</strongs>, were <strongs hebrew='7107'>wroth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7971'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3045'>known</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>certified</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><em>thereof</em> in <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And when inquisition was <strongs hebrew='1245'>made</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>, it was found <strongs hebrew='4672'>out</strongs>; therefore they were <strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6086'>tree</strongs>: and it was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>chronicles</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='310'>After</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>promote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4099'>Hammedatha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='91'>Agagite</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>advanced</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3678'>seat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>above</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>reverenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>concerning him. But <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs>did <em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='7812'>reverence</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>transgressest</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>daily</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, that they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>whether <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>matters</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>, nor did him <strongs hebrew='7812'>reverence</strongs>, then was <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='5869'>thought</strongs><strongs hebrew='959'>scorn</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7971'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>alone</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>: wherefore <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> throughout the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>In the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='5212'>Nisan</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5307'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='6332'>Pur</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , the <strongs hebrew='1486'>lot</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>day</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 2320'>month</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><em>month</em> , <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, There <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='259'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>scattered <strongs hebrew='6340'>abroad</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6504'>dispersed</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>; and their <strongs hebrew='1881'>laws</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='8138'>diverse</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>they the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1881'>laws</strongs>: therefore it <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7737'>profit</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5117'>suffer</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2895 5921'>please</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, let it be <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>that they may be <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs>: and I will <strongs hebrew='8254'>pay</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of those that have the <strongs hebrew='6213'>charge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4399'>business</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1595'>treasuries</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2885'>ring</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>it unto <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4099'>Hammedatha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='91'>Agagite</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='6887'>enemy</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>to thee, the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>also, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>with them as it seemeth good to <strongs hebrew='5869'>thee</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then were the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7969 6240'>thirteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, and there was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='323'>lieutenants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6346'>governors</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='5971 5971'>people</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>thereof, and <em>to</em> every <strongs hebrew='5971 5971'>people</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='3956'>language</strongs>; in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>was it <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2856'>sealed</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2885'>ring</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='7323'>posts</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroy</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2026'>kill</strongs>, and to cause to <strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='4480 5288'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='2205'>old</strongs>, little <strongs hebrew='2945'>children</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <em>even</em> upon the <strongs hebrew='7969 6240'>thirteenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs>is the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>, and <em>to</em> <em>take</em> the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>of them for a <strongs hebrew='962'>prey</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>The <strongs hebrew='6572'>copy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='1881'>commandment</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1540'>published</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6264'>ready</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='2088'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>The <strongs hebrew='7323'>posts</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, being <strongs hebrew='1765'>hastened</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>sat <strongs hebrew='3427'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>; but the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='943'>perplexed</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>When <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>perceived</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='3847'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='665'>ashes</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='4751'>bitter</strongs><strongs hebrew='2201'>cry</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>even</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><em>might</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs><strongs hebrew='3830'>clothed</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4725 834'>whithersoever</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs><strongs hebrew='5060'>came</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='60'>mourning</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6685'>fasting</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1065'>weeping</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4553'>wailing</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='3331'>lay</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='665'>ashes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>So <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5291'>maids</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> her. Then was the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>exceedingly</strongs><strongs hebrew='2342'>grieved</strongs>; and she <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='899'>raiment</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3847'>clothe</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, and to take <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him: but he <strongs hebrew='6901'>received</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='2047'>Hatach</strongs>, <em>one</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 5631'>chamberlains</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5975'>appointed</strongs>to attend <strongs hebrew='6440'>upon</strongs>her, and gave him a <strongs hebrew='6680'>commandmen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>it</strongs><em>was</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5921 4100'>why</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>it</strongs><em>was</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs hebrew='2047'>Hatach</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7136'>happened</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='*853'>and</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6575'>sum</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='559'>promised</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8254'>pay</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1595'>treasuries</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6'>destroy</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Also he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him the <strongs hebrew='6572'>copy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroy</strongs>them, to <strongs hebrew='7200'>show</strongs><em>it</em> unto <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5046'>declare</strongs><em>it</em> unto her, and to <strongs hebrew='6680'>charge</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>her</strongs>that she should go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, to make <strongs hebrew='2603'>supplication</strongs>unto him, and to make <strongs hebrew='1245'>request</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='2047'>Hatach</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Again <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='2047'>Hatach</strongs>, and gave him <strongs hebrew='6680'>commandment</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, do <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whosoever</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whether</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, shall <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6442'>inner</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='1881'>law</strongs>of his to put <em>him</em> to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='905'>except</strongs>such to <strongs hebrew='4480 834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>shall hold <strongs hebrew='3447'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='8275'>scepter</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='2421'>live</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>been <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>to come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7725 413'>answer</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1819'>Think</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='5315'>thyself</strongs>that thou shalt <strongs hebrew='4422'>escape</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, more than <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou altogether holdest thy <strongs hebrew='2790 2790'>peace</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, <em>then</em> shall there <strongs hebrew='7305'>enlargement</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2020'>deliverance</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>arise</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>from another <strongs hebrew='4480 4725 312'>place</strongs>; but <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knoweth</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>whether</strongs>thou art <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>for <em>such</em> a <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Then <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>bade</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='7725 413'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><em>this</em> <em>answer</em> , </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, gather <strongs hebrew='3664'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>that are <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6684'>fast</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='408'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='5291'>maidens</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6684'>fast</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>likewise</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>will I go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1881'>law</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='834'>if</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>So <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>went his <strongs hebrew='5674'>way</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>him</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='3847'>on</strongs><em>her</em> <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><em>apparel</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6442'>inner</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, over <strongs hebrew='5227'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, over <strongs hebrew='5227'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6607'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>so, when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>standing</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>, <em>that</em> she <strongs hebrew='5375'>obtained</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>held <strongs hebrew='3447'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='8275'>scepter</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>drew <strongs hebrew='7126'>near</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5060'>touched</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8275'>scepter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>wilt thou, <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs>? it shall be even <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2677'>half</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><em>it</em> <em>seem</em> <strongs hebrew='2895'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, let the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6213'>prepared</strongs>for him. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Cause <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>to make <strongs hebrew='4116'>haste</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>as <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1697'>said</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>prepared</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>thee: and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs>? even <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2677'>half</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>it shall be <strongs hebrew='6213'>performed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs><em>is</em> ; </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2895 5921'>please</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5414'>grant</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='6213'>perform</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs>, let the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>prepare</strongs>for them, and I will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1697'>said</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then went Haman <strongs hebrew='3318 2001'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='8056'>joyful</strongs>and with a <strongs hebrew='2896'>glad</strongs><strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>: but when <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, that he stood not <strongs hebrew='6965 3808'>up</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='2111'>moved</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>him</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2001'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2534'>indignation</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Nevertheless <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>refrained <strongs hebrew='662'>himself</strongs>: and when he <strongs hebrew='935 413'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='935'>called</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='157'>friends</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2238'>Zeresh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs>them of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>the</em> <em>things</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1431'>promoted</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5375'>advanced</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>above</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='637'>moreover</strongs>, Yea, <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>did let <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs>man come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='6213'>prepared</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>myself; and <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>am <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>invited</strongs>unto her <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Yet <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7737'>availeth</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='369'>nothing</strongs>, so <strongs hebrew='3605 6256'>long</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sitting</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='2238'>Zeresh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='157'>friends</strongs>unto him, Let a <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='1364'>high</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1242'>tomorrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>speak</strongs>thou unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>may be <strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>: then <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>thou in <strongs hebrew='8056'>merrily</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190 6440'>pleased</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>; and he caused the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'>On <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='5074'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8142'>sleep</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2146'>records</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And it was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='904'>Bigthana</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8657'>Teresh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4480 8104'>keepers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5592'>door</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7971'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1420'>dignity</strongs>hath been <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>? Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8334'>ministered</strongs>unto him, There is <strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>for</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>? Now <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='2435'>outward</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='559'>speak</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8518'>hang</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>for him. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>standeth</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let him come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighteth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>? Now <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>thought</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>, To <strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>would the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delight</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>more <strongs hebrew='3148'>than</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>to</strongs>myself? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559 413'>answered</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, For the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighteth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Let the <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='3830'>apparel</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><em>useth</em> to <strongs hebrew='3847'>wear</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horse</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7392'>rideth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3804'>crown</strongs><strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>upon his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And let this <strongs hebrew='3830'>apparel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5483'>horse</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s most <strongs hebrew='6579'>noble</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8269'>princes</strongs>, that they may <strongs hebrew='3847'>array</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>withal</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighteth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7392'>bring</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horseback</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaim</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3602'>Thus</strongs>shall it be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighteth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>, Make <strongs hebrew='4116'>haste</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3830'>apparel</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horse</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3427'>sitteth</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>: let <strongs hebrew='408 1697'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fail</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3830'>apparel</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horse</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3847'>arrayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, and brought him on <strongs hebrew='7392'>horseback</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3602'>Thus</strongs>shall it be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighteth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='1765'>hasted</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='57'>mourning</strongs>, and having his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='2645'>covered</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='2238'>Zeresh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='157'>friends</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><em>thing</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7136'>befallen</strongs>him. Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>his wise <strongs hebrew='2450'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2238'>Zeresh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><em>be</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 2233'>seed</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='2490'>begun</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>prevail</strongs>against him, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>shalt surely <strongs hebrew='5307 5307'>fall</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And while they <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>talking</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='5060'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='926'>hasted</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>prepared</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'>So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8354'>banquet</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>again</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>thee: and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs hebrew='6213'>performed</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2677'>half</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2895 5921'>please</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, let my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>me at my <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs>, and my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>at my <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>we are <strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, to be <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroyed</strongs>, to be <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='432'>if</strongs>we had been <strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='5650'>bondmen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8198'>bondwomen</strongs>, I had held my <strongs hebrew='2790'>tongue</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>although</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6862'>enemy</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7737'>countervail</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5143'>damage</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1931 2088'>he</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='335'>where</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='2088 1931'>he</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>durst <strongs hebrew='4390'>presume</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='376 6862'>adversary</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>wicked</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1204'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arising</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 4960'>banquet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs><em>went</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1055'>palace</strongs><strongs hebrew='1594'>garden</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>stood <strongs hebrew='5975'>up</strongs>to make <strongs hebrew='1245'>request</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4480 635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>there was <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='3615'>determined</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>out of the palace <strongs hebrew='4480 1594 1055'>garden</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>place</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4960'>banquet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 5921'>whereon</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><em>was</em> . Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, Will he <strongs hebrew='3533'>force</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>before</strongs>me in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? As the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of the king's <strongs hebrew='4480 6310 4428'>mouth</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='2645'>covered</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='2726'>Harbonah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlains</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='1364'>high</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5975'>standeth</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>. Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8518'>Hang</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So they <strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>. Then was the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='7918'>pacified</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'>On <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>did the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='6887'>enemy</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> unto her. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='5493'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2885'>ring</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5674'>taken</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 2001'>Haman</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>it unto <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>yet <strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>at</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2603'>besought</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='1058'>tears</strongs>to put <strongs hebrew='5674'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>mischief</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='91'>Agagite</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='4284'>device</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='2803'>devised</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>held <strongs hebrew='3447'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='8275'>scepter</strongs>toward <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2895 5921'>please</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><em>seem</em> <strongs hebrew='3787'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='2895'>pleasing</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, let it be <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7725'>reverse</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='4284'>devised</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4099'>Hammedatha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='91'>Agagite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='349'>how</strongs>can I <strongs hebrew='3201'>endure</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>shall come <strongs hebrew='4672'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>? or <strongs hebrew='349'>how</strongs>can I <strongs hebrew='3201'>endure</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='13'>destruction</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='4138'>kindred</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>and to <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>, and him they have <strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 834'>because</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7971'>laid</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3789'>Write</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, as it <strongs hebrew='2896 5869'>liketh</strongs>you, in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2856'>seal</strongs><em>it</em> with the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2885'>ring</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2856'>sealed</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2885'>ring</strongs>, may <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs>man <strongs hebrew='7725'>reverse</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then were the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='5510'>Sivan</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><em>day</em> thereof; and it was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='323'>lieutenants</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6346'>deputies</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> from <strongs hebrew='4480 1912'>India</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3568'>Ethiopia</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, unto every <strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>thereof, and unto every <strongs hebrew='5971 5971'>people</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='3956'>language</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>according to their <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>, and according to their <strongs hebrew='3956'>language</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And he <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2856'>sealed</strongs><em>it</em> with the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2885'>ring</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='7323'>posts</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='5483'>horseback</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7392'>riders</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='7409'>mules</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='327'>camels</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='1121'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='7424'>dromedaries</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='834'>Wherein</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs>to gather themselves <strongs hebrew='6950'>together</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroy</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2026'>slay</strongs>, and to cause to <strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2428'>power</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4082'>province</strongs>that would <strongs hebrew='6696'>assault</strongs>them, <em>both</em> little <strongs hebrew='2945'>ones</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, and <em>to</em> <em>take</em> the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>of them for a <strongs hebrew='962'>prey</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Upon <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, <em>namely</em> , upon the <strongs hebrew='7969 6240'>thirteenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>The <strongs hebrew='6572'>copy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='1881'>commandment</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1540'>published</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and that the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6264'>ready</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='2088'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>to avenge <strongs hebrew='5358'>themselves</strongs>on their <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><em>So</em> the <strongs hebrew='7323'>posts</strongs>that rode <strongs hebrew='7392'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7409'>mules</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='327'>camels</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, being <strongs hebrew='926'>hastened</strongs>and pressed <strongs hebrew='1765'>on</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>presence</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4438'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='3830'>apparel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8504'>blue</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2353'>white</strongs>, and with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='5850'>crown</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and with a <strongs hebrew='8509'>garment</strongs>of fine <strongs hebrew='948'>linen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='713'>purple</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs><strongs hebrew='6670'>rejoiced</strongs>and was <strongs hebrew='8055'>glad</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>The <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='219'>light</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8342'>joy</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3366'>honor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4725 834'>whithersoever</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs><strongs hebrew='5060'>came</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8342'>gladness</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>became <strongs hebrew='3054'>Jews</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7969 6240'>thirteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the same, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs>drew <strongs hebrew='5060'>near</strongs>to be put in <strongs hebrew='6213'>execution</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='7663'>hoped</strongs>to have <strongs hebrew='7980'>power</strongs>over them, (though <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs>was turned to the <strongs hebrew='2015'>contrary</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>had rule <strongs hebrew='7980'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>them</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8130'>hated</strongs>them;) </verse>
            <verse number='2'>The <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6950'>together</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7971'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>on such as <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7451'>hurt</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='5975'>withstand</strongs>them; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='323'>lieutenants</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6346'>deputies</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>officers</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5375'>helped</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8089'>fame</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='1980'>out</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>waxed</strongs>greater and <strongs hebrew='1419'>greater</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Thus the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='4347'>stroke</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2027'>slaughter</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='12'>destruction</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>what they <strongs hebrew='7522'>would</strongs>unto those that <strongs hebrew='8130'>hated</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='6577'>Parshandatha</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1813'>Dalphon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='630'>Aspatha</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='6334'>Poratha</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='118'>Adalia</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='743'>Aridatha</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='6534'>Parmashta</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='747'>Arisai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='742'>Aridai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2055'>Vajezatha</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='10'>The <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4099'>Hammedatha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6887'>enemy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>they; but on the <strongs hebrew='961'>spoil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>laid</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>On <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of those that were <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1002'>palace</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>have they <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7605'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>? now <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>thee: or <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='1246'>request</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>further</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2895 5921'>please</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, let it be <strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>according unto this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs>, and let <strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='1881'>decree</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>For the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6950'>together</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>; but on the <strongs hebrew='961'>prey</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7971'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But the <strongs hebrew='7605'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6950'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5315'>lives</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='5117'>rest</strongs>from their <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemies</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='8130'>foes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, but they <strongs hebrew='7971'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='961'>prey</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='17'>On the <strongs hebrew='7969 6240'>thirteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>; and on the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs>day of the same <strongs hebrew='5117'>rested</strongs>they, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>it a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4960'>feasting</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>But the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> at <strongs hebrew='7800'>Shushan</strongs>assembled <strongs hebrew='6950'>together</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7969 6240'>thirteenth</strongs><em>day</em> thereof, and on the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs>thereof; and on the <strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the same they <strongs hebrew='5117'>rested</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>it a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4960'>feasting</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Therefore</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6521'>villages</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6519'>unwalled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>towns</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs><em>a</em> <em>day</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4960'>feasting</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='4916'>sending</strongs><strongs hebrew='4490'>portions</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, <em>both</em> <strongs hebrew='7138'>nigh</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7350'>far</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='21'>To <strongs hebrew='6965'>establish</strongs><em>this</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>among</strongs>them, that they <strongs hebrew='1961'>should</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='143'>Adar</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the same, <strongs hebrew='3605 8141 8141'>yearly</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='22'>As the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='5117'>rested</strongs>from their <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemies</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2015'>turned</strongs>unto them from <strongs hebrew='4480 3015'>sorrow</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 60'>mourning</strongs>into a <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: that they should <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4960'>feasting</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='4916'>sending</strongs><strongs hebrew='4490'>portions</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4979'>gifts</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='34'>poor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='6901'>undertook</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='2490'>begun</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs><strongs hebrew='2001'>Haman</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4099'>Hammedatha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='91'>Agagite</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6887'>enemy</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, had <strongs hebrew='2803'>devised</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6'>destroy</strongs>them, and had <strongs hebrew='5307'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='6332'>Pur</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> , the <strongs hebrew='1486'>lot</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2000'>consume</strongs>them, and to <strongs hebrew='6'>destroy</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But when <em>Esther</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs>that his <strongs hebrew='7451'>wicked</strongs><strongs hebrew='4284'>device</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='2803'>devised</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, should <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his own <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and that he and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>should be <strongs hebrew='8518'>hanged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>gallows</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Wherefore</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='6332'>Purim</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6332'>Pur</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='107'>letter</strongs>, and <em>of</em> <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='4100'>which</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3602'>matter</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4100'>which</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, </verse>
            <verse number='27'>The <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>ordained</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6901'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>such as joined <strongs hebrew='3867'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>them, so as it should <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>fail</strongs>, that they would <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>according to their <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>, and according to their <em>appointed</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141 8141'>year</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><em>should</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='2142'>remembered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='1755 1755'>generation</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='4940 4940'>family</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='4082 4082'>province</strongs>, and every <strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs>; and <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6332'>Purim</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>fail</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2143'>memorial</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='5486'>perish</strongs>from their <strongs hebrew='4480 2233'>seed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Then <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='32'>Abihail</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='8633'>authority</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6965'>confirm</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='107'>letter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6332'>Purim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='4082'>provinces</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, <em>with</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='31'>To <strongs hebrew='6965'>confirm</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6332'>Purim</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='2165'>times</strongs><em>appointed</em> , according <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6965 5921'>enjoined</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='6965'>decreed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='5315'>themselves</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matters</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6685'>fastings</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='2201'>cry</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And the <strongs hebrew='3982'>decree</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='635'>Esther</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>confirmed</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>matters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6332'>Purim</strongs>; and it was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4522'>tribute</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <em>upon</em> the <strongs hebrew='339'>isles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>acts</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='8633'>power</strongs>and of his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6575'>declaration</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1420'>greatness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whereunto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>advanced</strongs>him, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4074'>Media</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='4782'>Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jew</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4932'>next</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='325'>Ahasuerus</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7521'>accepted</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1875'>seeking</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>wealth</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>speaking</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>. </verse>
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