Nehemiah 12
Priests and Levites 1 These were the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Joshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah, Malluk, Hattush, 3 Shekaniah, Rehum,…
Nehemiah 13
Nehemiah’s final reforms 1 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or…
Esther 1
Queen Vashti deposed 1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: 2 at that time King Xerxes…
Esther 2
Esther made queen 1 Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. 2 Then the king’s…
Esther 3
Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews 1 After these events, King Xerxes honoured Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honour higher than…
Esther 4
Mordecai persuades Esther to help 1 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city,…
Esther 5
Esther’s request to the king 1 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s…
Esther 6
Mordecai honoured 1 That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to…
Esther 7
Haman impaled 1 So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet, 2 and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, ‘Queen Esther,…
Esther 8
The king’s edict on behalf of the Jews 1 That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into…