feared for her life and tried to avoid his request to do something. Mordecai again pleaded with Queen Esther to do something to save the people. Esther responded by instructing all Jews to join her in fasting for three days and three nights, then she would approach the king with her ...
When a modern-day girl faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible. Your whole family will enjoy this musical journey into Amelia's imagination as ...See more Read more: Plot summary | Synopsis...
4.3went without eating:The Israelites would sometimes go without eating (also called “fasting”) in times of great sorrow or danger. 7.4I would … bothered you:One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. 8.9Sivan:The third month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-May to mid-Jun...
kingdom—words of goodwill and assurance—31to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fastingand lamentation.32Esther’s dec...
Book of Esther, in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It belongs to the third section of the Judaic canon, known as the Ketuvim, or ‘Writings,’ and also appears in the Protestant canon and in the Roman Catholic canon. It purports to expl
[180] These acts also centre the body as a site of control, moving from one extreme to another of feasting and fasting, in which Esther is continuously in control and leading others in these actions. In this way, “the excluded and anointed female body that serves as spectacle and object...
the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.9 : 11On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.9 : 12And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men ...
More important even than fasting is the prayer part. Don’t forget that part. Most of us pray daily, but we could set apart times when we sit with the Bible and read it line by line and ask for special guidance. And remember to pray specifically for redemption and deliverance, as Esth...
But, on the earnest entreaty of her uncle, she consented to approach after three days, which with her maids she would pass in fasting and prayer, and during which she requested her uncle to have all the Jews in the city fast and pray. On the third day Esther appeared before the ...
Esther 9:31: to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.