Study Desk

The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.

Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther, “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

The king arose in anger and went from where they were drinking wine to the palace garden. Haman remained to beg Queen Esther for his life because he realized the king was planning something terrible for him.

That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed her relationship to Mordecai.

King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday. And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them.

All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the royal civil administrators aided the Jews because they feared Mordecai.

because during those days the Jews gained relief from their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

For this reason these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter as well as what they had witnessed and what had happened to them,

Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.

and become darkened because of ice,and the snow melts into them.

They are ashamed because they had been confident of finding water.When they arrive there, they are disappointed.

You will be confident, because there is hope.You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.

then be afraid of the sword,because wrath brings punishment by the sword,so that you may know there is a judgment.

This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer,because I am upset!

Because his appetite is never satisfied,he does not let anything he desires escape.

Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me,they have cast off restraint in my presence.

For disaster from God terrifies me,and because of his majesty I could not do these things.

if I have rejoiced because my wealth is greator because my own hand has acquired so much,