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Scarce did thirty days suffice for the men of Israel to gather the Assyrian spoils. (Judith 15, 13)
When she left her house on festival days, great reverence was hers indeed. (Judith 16, 27)
and the whole people bewailed her for seven days together. (Judith 16, 29)
Now turn we to the days of Assuerus,✻ that was lord of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India on this side to Ethiopia on that, (Esther 1, 1)
All should have proof of his royal splendour, of the power and pride that were his; and long they kept holiday, for a hundred and eighty days together. (Esther 1, 4)
and was fain to take counsel of the wise men that were ever about his person, after the fashion of courts; theirs was still the advice he followed, theirs the knowledge of ancient law and precedent. (Esther 1, 13)
Still faithful to his bidding, Esther had said no word about her race or her country; still, as in her nursery days, she remembered and did all he told her. (Esther 2, 20)
No subject of the king’s grace, no province in his domains, but knows the inner court of the palace to be sacred. Man or woman entering it unbidden dies there and then; unless indeed the king should grant them life, by holding out his gold sceptre in token of pardon. These thirty days past I have not been summoned to the king’s presence; how can I venture in? (Esther 4, 11)
Go and muster all the Jews thou canst find in Susan, and pray for me. Spend three days and nights without food or drink, while I and my maidens fast too. Then I will break the law by appearing in the king’s presence unsummoned, though I must die for it. (Esther 4, 16)
In the city of Susan itself, the killing went on for two days; it was the fifteenth day, when their work was over, that they set apart for feasting and merry-making; (Esther 9, 18)
as the days of Jewry’s vengeance, when weeping and lament gave place to mirth and gladness. There was to be feasting on both days, and on both days rejoicing; dainties should be exchanged, and gifts made to the poor. (Esther 9, 22)
griefs borne, and strange vicissitudes. And the Jews pledged themselves and their children, with all who in after times should seek admission to their way of worship, to observe two days in each year, at the fixed time by this record determined.✻ (Esther 9, 27)
