Esther Chapter 8

• Esther 8:1
  Esther.
• Esther 8:2
  On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he ...
• Esther 8:3
  The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
• Esther 8:4
  Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his pla...
• Esther 8:5
  Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
• Esther 8:6
  She 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 i...
• Esther 8:7
  For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
• Esther 8:8
  Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the ga...
• Esther 8:9
  Write also to the Jews as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, a...
• Esther 8:10
  Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was writt...
• Esther 8:11
  He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were...
• Esther 8:12
  In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to...
• Esther 8:13
  on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
• Esther 8:14
  A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that ...
• Esther 8:15
  So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
• Esther 8:16
  Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and p...
• Esther 8:17
  The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
• Esther 8:18
  In every province and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from...