Theme: Enter God’s Rest: Time for “R & R”
Release and Renewal/Restoration
WEDNESDAY’S WORD
November 13, 2013
Esther: Release from
destruction (part 2 of 4)
Psalm 25:15 NIV ~ My eyes are ever on the Lord,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Esther 3:5-15
5 When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him
honor, he was enraged. 6 Yet
having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing
only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all
Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. 7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the
month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the
presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[a] the twelfth month, the month of
Adar. 8 Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people
dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep
themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other
people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best
interest to tolerate them. 9 If
it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give
ten thousand talents[b] of silver to the king’s
administrators for the royal treasury.” 10 So the king took his signet ring from his finger and
gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.11 “Keep the money,” the
king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.” 12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal
secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in
the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the
governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These
were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own
ring. 13 Dispatches
were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy,
kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single
day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to
plunder their goods. 14 A
copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and
made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that
day. 15 The couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and
the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down
to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.
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