This document is about Mordecai (Esther's_Cousin). For other homonyms, please refer to the Mordecai document. Mordecai was a person from the tribe of Benjamin who saved the people of Israel during the time when they were being returned to their homeland after being taken captive during the rule of Persia. He was the adoptive father of Esther (Queen). He resided in Susa, the capital of the Persian Empire. At that time, after King Ahasuerus had removed Queen Vashti, Mordecai sent Esther into the palace when a new queen was to be chosen.
Esther 2:5who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.Esther 2:6He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.Esther 2:7So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai), Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.Esther 2:8The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.Esther 2:9Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
Esther 2:17Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.Esther 2:18When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
Esther 2:21This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.Esther 2:22When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.Esther 2:23When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
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Esther 3:1All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.Esther 3:2Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”Esther 3:3Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.Esther 3:4When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.Esther 3:5But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman) sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
Esther 3:8If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”Esther 3:9The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
Esther 3:13A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
Esther 4:1He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.Esther 4:2In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.Esther 4:3Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.
Esther 4:13For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”Esther 4:14Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,Esther 4:15“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”Esther 4:16So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.Esther 4:17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Esther 10:2For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.Esther 10:3For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.