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1 | explane the book of esther to me | Esth 1:1 | poochie525 | 133326 | ||
who was esther | ||||||
2 | explane the book of esther to me | Esth 1:1 | pcdarcan | 133327 | ||
A Jewish orphan girl of the tribe of Benjamin whose Hebrew name was Hadassah (meaning “Myrtle”); a descendant from among those deported from Jerusalem along with King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) in 617 B.C.E. (Es 2:5-7) She was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai. (Es 2:15) Her guardian was her older cousin Mordecai, one of “the king’s servants that were in the king’s gate” of the palace at Shushan during the reign of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I, in the fifth century B.C.E.). (Es 2:7; 3:2) In brief, the book of ESTHER is a vivid account of how Esther, with guidance from her older cousin Mordecai, was used by God to deliver the Jews from extermination; Ester was written evidently by Mordecai, and apparently covering 493–c. 475 B.C.E. When King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) calls for Queen Vashti during a royal banquet, so he can show off her loveliness, she persistently refuses to come; the king removes her as queen (1:1-22) Esther is chosen above all the other beautiful virgins in the realm and is made queen; at Mordecai’s direction, she does not reveal that she is a Jewess (2:1-20) Mordecai is given the king’s signet ring that was taken from Haman (8:1, 2) With the king’s approval, a decree is issued permitting the Jews to defend themselves and to annihilate their enemies on the day that had been set for their own destruction; many thousands of the Jews’ enemies are slaughtered (8:3–9:19) It is decreed that this deliverance be commemorated each year (9:20-32) Mordecai comes to be second to the king and works for the good of his people (10:1-3) |
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3 | explane the book of esther to me | Esth 1:1 | Country Girl | 133359 | ||
It seems that you left out the most dramatic climax of Ester's story. Haman (the bad guy) in the end get his just reward just like a modern movie. Esth 9:20 Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, Esth 9:21 obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same month, annually, Esth 9:22 because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor. Esth 9:23 Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. Esth 9:24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them. Esth 9:25 But when it came to the king's attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. I'll let you elaborate if you'd like. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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