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Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 7:7 ESV
And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 7:6 ESV
And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 7:4 ESV
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 7:2 ESV
And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 6:11 ESV
So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 6:10 ESV
Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 6:9 ESV
And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'"
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 6:6 ESV
So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?"
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 6:4 ESV
And the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 6:2 ESV
And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 5:6 ESV
And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, "What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 5:3 ESV
And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom."
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 5:1 ESV
On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:16 ESV
"Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:14 ESV
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:13 ESV
Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:11 ESV
"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:8 ESV
Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:7 ESV
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:5 ESV
Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.
May 5