The Book of Esther, Verse by Verse..

[tred]

Esther 9:25
25 But when the plot came to the king's attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

 

[tred]

Esther 9:26
26 (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them.

 

[tred]

Esther 9:27
27 the Jews took it upon themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants land all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed.

 

[tred]

Esther 9:28
28 These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never cease to be celebrated by the Jews, nor should the memory of them die out among their descendants.

 

[tred]

Esther 9:29
29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

 

[tred]

Esther 9:30
30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes - words of goodwill and assurance -

 

[tred]

Esther 9:31
31 to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.

 

[tred]

Esther 9:32
32 Esther's decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, and it was written down in the records.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 10:1
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 10:2
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 10:3
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 1:2
That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 1:3
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Esther 1:4
When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Esther 1:5 When these days were completed, the king gave a banquet lasting seven days for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.