CONTENTS
This chapter is a continuation of the history, resulting from the
former. Vashti the queen being deposed, Esther, a Jewish girl, is
chosen. Mordecai her relation is enabled to make discovery of a
treason meditated against the king.... [ Continue Reading ]
(1) В¶ 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 offic... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 B... [ Continue Reading ]
(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.
Though Esther makes in the after-part of this history so considerable
a... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 hi... [ Continue Reading ]
(21) В¶ 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... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! let the view here afforded of the sad corruption and base
lusts of our poor fallen nature, add one conviction more to all thou
hast already received of the great necessity and immense blessing of
the pure gospel of CHRIST. Well might the angels call it glad tidings
of great joy,... [ Continue Reading ]