Barbara Hayes

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."

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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?"

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 4:4 ESV

When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 4:1 ESV

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 3:13 ESV

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 3:9 ESV

If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries."

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 3:8 ESV

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 3:6 ESV

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 3:5 ESV

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 3:2 ESV

And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 2:17 ESV

the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 2:12 ESV

Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 2:10 ESV

Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.

over 10 years ago

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