“When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.”
After fasting for three days with zero food and zero water, Esther puts on her royal robes in preparation [...]
“And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?”
Mordecai learned about Haman’s plot and immediately went into crisis mode, tearing his clothes and donning sackcloth (think scratchy potato sack) and ashes. He clothed himself in humility and repentance in the hopes that God would hear his cries [...]
“The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered”
After Mordecai’s reward is overlooked at the end of chapter 2 we arrive at chapter 3 where Haman is rewarded and elevated in Xerxes’ court. All the nobles and officials were to bow down to pay honor to Haman, but Mordecai [...]
“But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai”
Esther 2 concludes with Mordecai sitting at the King’s gate. The gate was more of a gate house than a simple backyard fence gate. Think of a medieval castle with a separate grand [...]
The anticipation is finally over! A winning name has been selected for our blog, The Blog Testament. While this wasn’t exactly an entry in the contest, reader Apryl suggested The Testament Blog, which was good, but when I found that blogtestament.com AND theblogtestament.com were both available, I just jumped on it. So, since our new [...]
“Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti”
In this season of The Bachelor: over 25 beautiful young virgins have been brought from all over the provinces of Persia to the citadel of Susa. They’ve endured 12 months of beauty treatments for one chance to become queen. But there’s only [...]
“Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided…”
I started reading Esther 2 and pondered the word “later” in verse 1. As it turns out, later was about 3 years later! I did some reading up on what Xerxes was up to during that time and thought I would share a little about the Greco-Persian Wars.
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