Esther 2
Esther 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he
remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair
young virgins sought for the king:
3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that
they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to
the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper
of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the
thing pleased the king; and he did so.
5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai,
the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been
carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon had carried away.
7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had
neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai,
when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and
when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody
of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of
Hegai, keeper of the women.
9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily
gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and
seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he
preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know
how Esther did, and what should become of her.
12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that
she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were
the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of
myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying
of the women;)
13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given
her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house
of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept
the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in
her, and that she were called by name.
15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai,
who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she
required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women,
appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon
her.
16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth
month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and
favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown
upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even
Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts,
according to the state of the king.
19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai
sat in the king's gate.
20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged
her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up
with him.
21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's
chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and
sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and
Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.
23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they
were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles
before the king.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.