Esther 1
CHAPTER 1. 1 In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces: 2 When he sat on the throne of his kingdom,…
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Esther 2
CHAPTER 2. 1 After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was appeased, he remembered Vasthi, and what she had done end what she had suffered: 2 And the king’s…
Esther 3
CHAPTER 3. 1 After these things, king Assuerus advanced Aman, the son of Amadathi, who was of the race of Agag: and he set his throne above all the princes…
Esther 4
CHAPTER 4. 1 Now when Mardochai had heard these things, he rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his head: and he cried with a loud voice…
Esther 5
CHAPTER 5. 1 And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s hall: now…
Esther 6
CHAPTER 6. 1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them…
Esther 7
CHAPTER 7. 1 So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen. 2 And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm…
Esther 8
CHAPTER 8. 1 On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews’ enemy, to queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had confessed…
Esther 9
CHAPTER 9. 1 So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred,…
Esther 10
CHAPTER 10. 1 And king Assuerus made all the land, and all the islands of the sea tributary. 2 And his strength and his empire, and the dignity and greatness…