Ahasuerus, or Achashverosh in Hebrew, is the king of the Persian Empire who chooses as his queen the young Jewish woman Esther, and then at her... Learn more about this topic: The History & Authorship of the Old Testament from
Esther 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus Who he was is not easy to say; almost all the kings of Persia are so named by one or another writer. He cannot be the Ahasuerus in ( Daniel 9:1 ) , he was Astyages, the father of Cyaxares or Darius the Mede; but ...
joy and honor.17And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for the fear of the Jews had fallen upon ...
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out Or on the mules, which in the Persian language were called "ahashteranim"; (See Gill on Esther 8:10), being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; who gave them a special order to make what haste they could, that...
Esther 7:1. So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. Haman has just finished escorting Mordecai around the city, which was very humiliating for him, and now he is on his way to the banquet which he has been asked to attend. It is again a banquet of wine and dessert,...
They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”King James BibleAnd kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with ...
“Now then, I will reveal the truth to you. Three more Persian kings will reign, to be succeeded by a fourth, far richer than the others. He will use his wealth to stir up everyone to fight against the kingdom of Greece. English Standard Version ...
“Do not be afraid, Daniel.Since the first daythat you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the...
Assia Esther Wevill (15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandate Palestine, then later the United Kingdom, where she had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes. She killed herself and their fou...
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