- 1. After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- 2. Then said the king
- 3. And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king
- 4. And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
- 5. Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
- 6. Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
- 7. And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle
- 8. So it came to pass, when the king
- 9. And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king
- 10. Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
- 11. And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women
- 12. Now when every maid
- 13. Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king
- 14. In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king
- 15. Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king
- 16. So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
- 17. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
- 18. Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther
- 19. And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king
- 20. Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
- 21. In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king
- 22. And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai
- 23. And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
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