Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+004   CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+003   CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. 2 And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+002   CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 16 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+001   Esther The book of Esther explains why Jews in the Persian period began celebrating a new festival called Purim. The Law of Moses had earlier described how God’s mighty acts of deliverance lay behind holidays such as Passover and Tabernacles. The book of Esther shows how God intervened once […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+013   CHAPTER 13 (ESV)   23 In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. […]