Quotes about Author

He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.

Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”

But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.

So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,

On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,

And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,

So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,