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The Story of Esther the Queen: A Popular Exposition Alexander M. Symington No preview available - 2015 |
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according Agagite Amalek Amestris Bigthan Book of Esther Christ cloth boards Compare Esther conscience conviction Crown 8vo crown royal Darius decai decree delighteth to honour destroy Divine doom earth edict empire enemy Esther the queen exile faith father favour Fcap feast friends gallows glad God's greater wrath Haman stood Hammedatha hand hanged Hatach hath heart heaven house of Haman husband Israel Jerusalem Jesus Jews king Ahasuerus king and Haman king delighteth king's chamberlains king's commandment king's gate king's provinces king's ring kingdom Lord month Adar Mordecai Mordecai the Jew mourning Nebuchadnezzar palace garden peace perish Persia Persian empire prayer princes provinces Psalm Purim request righteousness royal apparel sackcloth seed Shushan the palace thee things thirteenth day thirteenth of Adar thought told unto Esther unto the banquet unto the king Vashti wicked wine woman women words Xerxes Zeresh
Popular passages
Page 21 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 103 - Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night...
Page 67 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Page 43 - And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
Page 125 - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 40 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Page 32 - I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. " Surely," shall one say, " in the Lord have I righteousness and strength :" even to him shall men come ; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Page 79 - And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom ; and their laws are diverse from all people ; neither keep they the king's laws : therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 109 - Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
Page 133 - Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.