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8181 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.17 (Ellen G. White Estate)
3 Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
8182 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.18 (Ellen G. White Estate)
4 For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king’s loss.”
8183 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.19 (Ellen G. White Estate)
5 So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?”
8184 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.20 (Ellen G. White Estate)
6 And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
8185 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.21 (Ellen G. White Estate)
7 Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
8186 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.22 (Ellen G. White Estate)
8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will …
8187 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.23 (Ellen G. White Estate)
9 Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing …
8188 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.24 (Ellen G. White Estate)
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.
8189 NKJV Bible in 365 Days
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8190 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.25 (Ellen G. White Estate)
1 On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.
8191 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.26 (Ellen G. White Estate)
2 So the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Haman.
8192 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.27 (Ellen G. White Estate)
3 Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.
8193 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.28 (Ellen G. White Estate)
4 And the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. So Esther arose and stood before the king,
8194 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.29 (Ellen G. White Estate)
5 and said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight and the thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to revoke …
8195 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.30 (Ellen G. White Estate)
6 For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen?”
8196 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.31 (Ellen G. White Estate)
7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, “Indeed, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he tried to lay his hand on the Jews.
8197 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.32 (Ellen G. White Estate)
8 You yourselves write a decree concerning the Jews, as you please, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for whatever is written in the …
8198 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.33 (Ellen G. White Estate)
9 So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that …
8199 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.34 (Ellen G. White Estate)
10 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback, riding on royal horses bred from swift steeds.Lit. sons of the swift horses
8200 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.35 (Ellen G. White Estate)
11 By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives—to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces …