Barbara Hayes

But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 8:7 ESV

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 8:6 ESV

For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 8:3 ESV

Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 8:2 ESV

And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 8:1 ESV

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 7:10 ESV

And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 7:8 ESV

And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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.'"

over 10 years ago

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?"

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

finished reading Esther 1, Esther 2, Esther 3, Esther 4, Esther 5 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,...

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

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