Trouvé 4918 Résultats pour: Rom
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)
From golden cups they drank, and the very trenchers on which the meat was served were ever of new design. Wine they had in plenty, and of rare vintage, as befitted a king’s state; (Esther 1, 7)
There was a Jew called Mardochaeus living at Susan, descended through Jair and Semei from Cis the Benjamite,✻ (Esther 2, 5)
who was carried off from Jerusalem by the Babylonian king Nabuchodonosor at the same time as king Jechonias of Juda. (Esther 2, 6)
Ever the bride was given what adornment she would, and so, in finery of her own choosing, passed out from the maidens’ lodging to the royal bed-chamber. (Esther 2, 13)
but still he gave them no heed, till at last they told Aman of it. Would he still be so stiff in his opinions? They had learned from him by now that he was a Jew. (Esther 3, 4)
Be it thy pleasure to decree their destruction, and I promise thee an increase of ten thousand talents to thy revenue. (Esther 3, 9)
Esther heard, from her maidservants and from the chamberlains, what Mardochaeus did; she was bewildered at the news, and sent out clothes for him to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would have none of it. (Esther 4, 4)
and heard from him all the news; of the money Aman had promised to the royal treasury in return for the Jews’ destruction. (Esther 4, 7)
A proud man was Aman that day, and he went home treading on air. But Mardochaeus still sat at the palace door; rise up he would not, nor stir from his post. And Aman, seeing it, fell into a rage. (Esther 5, 9)
and opened his mind. He recounted to them how great his wealth was, how many children were his, what honour the king had done him by promoting him to be the chief of all his nobles and courtiers. (Esther 5, 11)
To his wife Zares and to all his friends he told the story of what befell; but from wife and counsellors he could get no comfort. If he is of the Jewish race,✻ they said, this Mardochaeus who has begun to outmatch thee, thou wilt never get the better of him; yield to him thou must. (Esther 6, 13)
