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Posted on 03/10/2012 4:06:27 AM PST by left that other site
Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem
The Book Of Esther
Chapter 8
The Kings Edict in Behalf of the Jews
1 That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her. 2 The king took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Haman, and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed him over Hamans estate.
3 Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews. 4 Then the king extended the gold scepter to Esther and she arose and stood before him.
5 If it pleases the king, she said, and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the kings provinces. 6 For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?
7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up. 8 Now write another decree in the kings name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the kings signet ringfor no document written in the kings name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.
9 At once the royal secretaries were summonedon the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecais orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.[a] These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language. 10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the kings signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.
11 The kings edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children,[b] and to plunder the property of their enemies. 12 The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. 13 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
14 The couriers, riding the royal horses, went out, spurred on by the kings command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa.
The Triumph of the Jews
15 When Mordecai left the kings presence, he was wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa held a joyous celebration. 16 For the Jews it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honor. 17 In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.
Footnotes:
a. Esther 8:9 That is, the upper Nile region
b. Esther 8:11 Or province, together with their women and children, who might attack them;.
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Thank You, Geologist, For Your Prayers For The Peace of Jerusalem, For America, For Our FRiend Yorkie, For me, and For Our Persecuted Brethren.
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Thank You, ConorMacNessa, For Your Prayers and Dramatic Graphic For The Peace of Jerusalem, For America, For Our FRiend Yorkie, For me, and For Our Persecuted Brethren.
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Thank You, Lera, For Your Prayers For The Peace of Jerusalem, For America, For Our FRiend Yorkie, For me, and For Our Persecuted Brethren.
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