Esther 9 and 10 Feast of Purim – Days of Rest, Feasting & Gladness
as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy,… (READ MORE)
Esther 8 Amazing Deliverance
The Jews had light and gladness, joy and honor. And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a holiday. Then many of the people of the… (READ MORE)
Esther 7: Haman Hanged
We have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Esther 7:4 At the evening banquet, Queen Esther reveals that she is Jewish, and that Haman has ordered to slaughter of her… (READ MORE)
Esther 6 God Thwarts Haman’s Plot
That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. Esther 6:1 In spite of the published decree, Mordecai ignores Haman, showing… (READ MORE)
Esther 5 Queen’s Wisdom – Wait for the Right Moment
Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house Esther 5:1 Esther Invites the King and… (READ MORE)
Esther 4: For Such A Time As This
For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such… (READ MORE)
Esther 3: Haman’s Plot to Exterminate the Jews
And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day. Esther 3:13 Haman the Enemy of the… (READ MORE)
Esther 2 Two Significant Events
Esther Made Queen and the Plot to Assassinate King Xerxes Exposed by Mordecai Esther made queen A search for a new queen is begun immediately. Following defeat by the Greeks in the west, several years later Xerxes chooses Esther, the… (READ MORE)
Providence
The Book of Esther records a message Mordecai sends to Esther the queen after an unlikely set of circumstances has made her consort of the Persian emperor Xerxes. “If you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the… (READ MORE)
Esther 1 Queen Vashti Defies King Ahasuerus
If it pleases the king, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will not be altered, that Vashti shall come no more… (READ MORE)
Esther, Intro – The Book of Providential Care
The Book of Esther is the Scripture’s clearest example of the doctrine of providence. The story of Esther is set in the capital of the Persian empire, early in the reign of Xerxes (486-465 B.C.). It tells of a plot… (READ MORE)