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1	For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
2	This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: Esther 1:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
3	When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king's palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest, who were in the citadel of Susa. Esther 1:5 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
4	to bring before him Queen Vashti, wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty to the people and nobles, for she was lovely to look at. Esther 1:11 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
5	Since it was customary for the king to consult experts in matters of law and justice, he spoke with the wise men who understood the times Esther 1:13 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
6	Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died. Esther 2:7 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
7	Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, Esther 4:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
8	When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her. Esther 2:15 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
9	Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her. Esther 2:11 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
10	Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai's behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew. Esther 3:4 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
11	For the queen's conduct will become known to all the women, and so they will despise their husbands and say, 'King Xerxes commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she would not come.' Esther 1:17 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
12	"Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she. Esther 1:19 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
13	Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king's signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king. Esther 8:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
14	So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided. Esther 7:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
15	On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them. Esther 9:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
16	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. Esther 8:13 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
17	The king and his nobles were pleased with this advice, so the king did as Memucan proposed. Esther 1:21 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
18	Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, Esther 2:5 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
19	This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy. Esther 9:17 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
20	Mordecai left the king's presence 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. Esther 8:15 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
21	Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why. Esther 4:5 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
22	"All the king's officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that he be put to death. The only exception to this is for the king to extend the gold scepter to him and spare his life. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king." Esther 4:11 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
23	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. Esther 8:12 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
24	he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. Esther 4:13 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
25	The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king's palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem. Esther 2:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
26	Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews-young and old, women and little children-on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. Esther 3:13 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
27	The number of those slain in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king that same day. Esther 9:11 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
28	The king said to Queen Esther, "The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted." Esther 9:12 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
29	He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to urge her to go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people. Esther 4:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
30	Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. Esther 2:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
31	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 they would be ready for that day. Esther 3:14 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
32	Then the king's personal attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. Esther 2:2 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
33	When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate. Esther 2:19 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
34	Then when the king's edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest." Esther 1:20 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
35	Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it. Esther 2:4 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
36	Then Haman said to King Xerxes, "There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose customs are different from those of all other people and who do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them. Esther 3:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
37	The king's edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate any armed force of any nationality or province that might attack them and their women and children; and to plunder the property of their enemies. Esther 8:11 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
38	In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name. Esther 2:14 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
39	and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present. Esther 1:3 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
40	Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. Esther 3:6 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
41	Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, Esther 9:20 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
42	Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder. Esther 9:16 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
43	Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman's orders to the king's satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring. Esther 3:12 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
44	Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king's most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, 'This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!'" Esther 6:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
45	All the royal officials at the king's gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor. Esther 3:2 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
46	Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: Esther 4:15 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
47	During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. Esther 2:21 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
48	the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder. Esther 9:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
49	have them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head. Esther 6:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
50	After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. Esther 3:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
51	If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury for the men who carry out this business." Esther 3:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
52	"Keep the money," the king said to Haman, "and do with the people as you please." Esther 3:11 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
53	The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones. Esther 1:6 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
54	He sent dispatches to all parts of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, proclaiming in each people's tongue that every man should be ruler over his own household. Esther 1:22 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
55	In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, they cast the pur (that is, the lot) in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar. Esther 3:7 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
56	Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his wife, Esther 5:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
57	"Go at once," the king commanded Haman. "Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended." Esther 6:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
58	who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah. Esther 2:6 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
59	to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar Esther 9:21 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
60	So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. Esther 3:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
61	Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. Esther 2:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
62	This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen's conduct will respond to all the king's nobles in the same way. There will be no end of disrespect and discord. Esther 1:18 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
63	At once the royal secretaries were summoned-on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. 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. Esther 8:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
64	So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate. Esther 4:6 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
65	So he answered the king, "For the man the king delights to honor, Esther 6:7 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
66	That is why rural Jews-those living in villages-observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other. Esther 9:19 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
67	When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. Esther 2:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
68	King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores. Esther 10:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
69	That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. Esther 6:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
70	Then Memucan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, "Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes. Esther 1:16 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
71	If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king's question." Esther 5:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
72	The couriers, riding the royal horses, raced out, spurred on by the king's command. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa. Esther 8:14 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
73	Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. Esther 2:17 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
74	When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, Esther 4:12 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
75	Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. Esther 4:7 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
76	Esther replied, "My petition and my request is this: Esther 5:7 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
77	The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder. Esther 9:15 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
78	Before a girl's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics. Esther 2:12 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
79	In every province and in every city, wherever the edict of the king went, 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. Esther 8:17 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
80	Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king's liberality. Esther 1:7 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
81	By the king's command each guest was allowed to drink in his own way, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished. Esther 1:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
82	When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. Esther 4:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
83	Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king's gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai. Esther 5:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
84	For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty. Esther 1:4 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
85	Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, "A gallows seventy-five feet high stands by Haman's house. He had it made for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king." The king said, "Hang him on it!" Esther 7:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
86	But when the plot came to the king's attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Esther 9:25 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
87	But when the attendants delivered the king's command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger. Esther 1:12 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
88	"According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?" he asked. "She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her." Esther 1:15 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
89	On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance. Esther 5:1 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
90	On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him-Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Carcas- Esther 1:10 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
91	and were closest to the king-Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memucan, the seven nobles of Persia and Media who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom. Esther 1:14 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
92	Spurred on by the king's command, the couriers went out, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered. Esther 3:15 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
93	She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. Esther 2:16 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
94	Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes. Esther 1:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
95	When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Esther 3:5 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
96	Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews. Esther 10:3 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
97	Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful girls into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them. Esther 2:3 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
98	Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, "Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?" As soon as the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. Esther 7:8 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
99	As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, "Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted." Esther 5:6 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal
100	Hathach went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said. Esther 4:9 NIV See Verse See Chapter Create Postal

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