Identifier: biblepanoramaorh00fost (find matches)
Title: The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, William A. (from old catalog)
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m and she came not. Therefore let the king make a decree, and let it bewritten among the laws of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed,that Vashti shall come no more before the king; and let the king chooseanother woman for queen who is better than she. Then, when this decree shallbe known throughout the kingdom, all the wives, both of rich men and of poormen, will obey their husbands. And these words pleased the king and his princes, and the king did as thewise man had told him. For he sent letters through all the different provincesof his kingdom, commanding that every man should be ruler in his own house,and that this law should be made known to all the people. Then the kingsservants came to him, saying, Let the king send officers to all the provinces ofhis kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young women ofPersia into the palace at Shushan; and let the one who pleaseth the king bestbe queen instead of Vashti. And the king did as his servants said. 200
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QUEEN VASHTI REFUSES TO OBEY THE COMMAND OF KING AHASUERUS. 201 ESTHEK I. 12. Esther is Made Queen. NOW there was among the servants at the palace of king Ahasuerus a Jewnamed Mordecai, who had a cousin named Esther. She was a Jewess.Her father and mother were dead, but when they died Mordecai tookEsther to his house, and since that time had brought her up as his owndaughter. And the maid was fair and beautiful. And it happened, when the kings commandment was made known throughthe land, and many young maidens were gathered together at Shushan, thepalace, that Esther was brought there among them. But Esther did not let itbe known that she was a Jewess, for Mordecai had advised her not to tell it. When king Ahasuerus saw Esther, he loved her more than all the othermaidens who were brought before him, so that he set the royal crown uponher head and made her queen instead of Vashti. In those days, two of the kings officers, because they were angry with theking, wanted to lay hands on him

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