Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+009   CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 20 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+008   CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 3 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 When the king held out the golden […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+007   CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+006   CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 1 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+005   CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 9 And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he […]