August 25 Esther 9-10 (ESV) The Jews Destroy Their Enemies 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery [...]
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August 25 Esther 9-10
Posted: August 25, 2011 by Pam Larson in August Bible Readings, Bible Passages, EstherTags: August 25 Esther 9-10, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Scripture
Last Suppers
Posted: August 24, 2011 by Pam Larson in August, Devotionals/Commentaries, EstherTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Last Suppers, Ray Stedman, Scripture
Ray Stedman on Esther 7: The chapter opens with an intimate supper in a private banqueting room where Queen Esther, the king, and Haman, the evil prime minister, are gathered, and it closes with a man nailed, screaming, to a tree until he is dead. Here is one of those frequent timeless foreshadowings of the [...]
August 24 Esther 7-8
Posted: August 24, 2011 by Pam Larson in August Bible Readings, Bible Passages, EstherTags: August 24 Esther 7-8, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Scripture
August 24 Esther 7-8 (ESV) 7:1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the [...]
Sleepless in Susa
Posted: August 23, 2011 by Pam Larson in August, Devotionals/Commentaries, EstherTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Scripture, Sleepless in Susa
Bob Deffinbaugh comments at Bible.org: A sleepless night for the king changed the course of history and resulted in the deliverance of the Jews throughout the Persian Empire. In reality, it was a divinely orchestrated sequence of events. Those events nullified the law wicked Haman had passed by deceiving the king and spared the lives [...]
August 23 Esther 5-6
Posted: August 23, 2011 by Pam Larson in August Bible Readings, Bible Passages, EstherTags: August 23 Esther 5-6, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Scripture
August 23 Esther 5-6 (ESV) Esther Prepares a Banquet 5:1 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. 2 And [...]
Matthew Henry on Esther: “I cannot lose my life in a better cause.”
Posted: August 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in August, Devotionals/Commentaries, EstherTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, martyrdom, Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry on Esther: "I cannot lose my life in a better cause.", Scripture
Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, [...]
August 22 Esther 3-4
Posted: August 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in August Bible Readings, Bible Passages, EstherTags: August 22 Esther 3-4, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Scripture
August 22 Esther 3-4 (ESV) Haman Plots Against the Jews 3:1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. 2 And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to [...]
Hanged on the Gallows
Posted: August 21, 2011 by Pam Larson in August, Devotionals/Commentaries, EstherTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Hanged on the Gallows, Ray Stedman, Scripture
Pastor Ray Stedman, “A Pair of Queens,” on Esther 2: The chapter closes with an account of how the entrance of Mordecai and Esther into the life of this king involved also deliverance from a plot which threatened the very life of the king: When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting [...]
August 21 Esther 2
Posted: August 21, 2011 by Pam Larson in August Bible Readings, Bible Passages, EstherTags: August 21 Esther 2, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Esther, Scripture
August 21 Esther 2 (ESV) Esther Chosen Queen 2:1 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. 2 Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king. 3 And let [...]
Web of providence, grace and mercy
Posted: August 25, 2011 by Pam Larson in August, Devotionals/Commentaries, EstherTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Bob Deffinbaugh, daily Bible, Esther, God's sovereignty, providence of God, Scripture, sovereign grace, Web of providence grace and mercy
Bob Deffinbaugh comments: A slight shift in the events recorded in Esther would have doomed the Jews, except as Mordecai said, “help would come from someplace else.” Nevertheless, success in the small details mattered. As an Agagite, Haman may well have used his position against the Jews at the first provocation, whether it came from [...]