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to send fire through our country-side, put our warriors to the sword, mark down our children for slavery, our maidens for spoil. (Judith 16, 6)
On every side, fastened by ivory rings to marble columns, hung canopies, some white, some flaxen, some violet, with cords of fine linen and purple thread; couches of gold and silver were set here and there on a floor of malachite and marble, wondrously patterned. (Esther 1, 6)
(The chief of them, and the nearest to his person, were Charsena, Sethar, Admatha, Tharsis, Mares, Marsana and Mamuchan; these seven princes of Persia and Media attended on him always, and had places next himself.) (Esther 1, 14)
There was a Jew called Mardochaeus living at Susan, descended through Jair and Semei from Cis the Benjamite,✻ (Esther 2, 5)
A ward this man had, a niece of his called Edissa, or Esther, that had lost both her parents. Beauty was hers of form and face, and when her parents died, Mardochaeus adopted her as his own daughter. (Esther 2, 7)
Of her race and country she had told him nothing; concerning that, Mardochaeus had enjoined silence on her; (Esther 2, 10)
So the day came when it was the turn of Esther, Abihail’s child, daughter now to his brother Mardochaeus, to be a king’s bride. For her adorning, she had no request to make; let the chamberlain Egeus, since the maidens were under his charge, deck her as he would. But oh, she was fair; she had beauty past all belief, to win men’s favour and their love. (Esther 2, 15)
And now, the brides summoned and housed anew,✻ Mardochaeus took up his post at the gates of the palace itself. (Esther 2, 19)
And it was while Mardochaeus haunted the palace gates that two of the royal chamberlains, Bagathan and Thares, door-keepers both at the palace entry, grew disaffected, and would have made a murderous attack on the king’s person. (Esther 2, 21)
Mardochaeus came to hear of it, and told queen Esther; she, naming him as her informant, told her husband. (Esther 2, 22)
And all the royal attendants at the palace gates must bow the knee and do Aman reverence, such were their orders. But Mardochaeus went his own way, and would neither bow nor bend. (Esther 3, 2)
Aman, when he heard their story, and proved the truth of it for himself, that Mardochaeus would neither bow nor bend, (Esther 3, 5)
