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The king rose angrily from his place, left the banqueting-room, and went out to walk in the garden, among his trees. With that, Aman rose too, intent on winning his pardon from queen Esther; doubt he might not that the king was bent on his undoing. (Esther 7, 7)
Thus minded, he fell sprawling across the couch on which Esther lay; and so the king found him, when he returned from garden to banqueting-room. What, cried he, will he ravish the queen before my eyes, and in my own house? And before the words were out of his mouth Aman was gagged and blindfold. (Esther 7, 8)
The golden sceptre was held out, in sign of the royal favour, and she rose to her feet and stood fronting him. (Esther 8, 4)
Please it the king’s grace, she said, to look favourably on my suit, and find nothing in it to his disadvantage. I would have new dispatches sent out, to revoke the order made by Aman, our crafty enemy, for the slaying of the Jews in all thy domains. (Esther 8, 5)
But letters sent in the king’s name and signed with his ring, by the custom of the realm, none must ever revoke.✻ Write rather in my name, under the royal seal, orders for the Jewish people to obey, in whatever sense likes you best. (Esther 8, 8)
And these letters, written under the royal seal in the king’s name, were sent out by post-boys, that must carry them from province to province before the earlier decree could be executed. (Esther 8, 10)
The day fixed everywhere for this act of retribution was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar …. (Esther 8, 12)
Swiftly the post-boys went about their errand, and in Susan the royal edict was hung up for all to see. (Esther 8, 14)
When Mardochaeus came out from his audience with the king, resplendent in royal robes of violet and white, a gold crown on his head, his cloak of purple and lawn, the whole city welcomed him with rejoicing and applause; (Esther 8, 15)
So Adar came, the last month of the year, and the thirteenth day of Adar. All preparations had been made, by blood-thirsty enemies, for a massacre of the Jews on that day, but instead, the Jews had the better of them, and could set about avenging themselves. (Esther 9, 1)
City by city, town by town, region by region they banded themselves together, ready to strike the first blow against the men that hated and persecuted them. None dared withstand them, so wide-spread the fear their rise to power had engendered; (Esther 9, 2)
did he not hold the first place at court, high in the royal favour? Every day his fame grew, and he was in all men’s mouths. (Esther 9, 4)
