June 14, 2025, Ester 10:1-3 10  King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.   2  And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?   3  For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. How amazing God is that Mordecai went from close to being hanged to the second in rank to the king! What an amazing God we serve! What has God done for you that saved you from the enemy? Pray today for protection from the enemy and to help you see when He keeps you from harm.  

June 13, 2025, Ester 9:20-32 20  And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,  21  obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,  22  as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor. 23  So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.  24  For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.  25  But when it came before the king, he gave order...

June 12, 2025, Ester 9:1-19 9  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 over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.  2  The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.  3  All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.  4  For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.  5  The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killi...

June 11, 2025, Ester 8:1-17 8  On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.  2  And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. 3  Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.  4  When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king.  5  And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who a...

June 10, 2025, Ester 7:7-10 7  And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.  8  And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.  9  Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”  10  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated. These verses give an accou...

June 9, 2025, Ester 6:14-7:6 14  While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared. 7  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 half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”  3  Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.  4  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”  5  Then King Ahasuerus said to Qu...

June 8, 2025, Ester 6:9-13 6  On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.  2  And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.  3  And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king's young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”  4  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.  5  And the king's young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”  6  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “...

June 7, 2025, Ester 5:9-14 9  And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.  10  Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.  11  And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.  12  Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.  13  Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.”  14  Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gal...

  June 6, 2025, Ester 5:1-8 5  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 when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.  3  And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”  4  And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.”  5  Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared.  6  And as the...

June 5, 2025, Ester 4:1-17 4  When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.  2  He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.  3  And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes. 4  When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.  5  Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.  6  ...

June 4, 2025, Ester 3:1-15 3  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 Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.  3  Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king's command?”  4  And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai's words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.  5  And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.  6  But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mo...

  June 3, 2025, Ester 2:19-23 19  Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.  20  Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.  21  In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.  22  And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.  23  When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. These verses tell of Mordecia’s discovery of a plot against the king. He shared the plan with Esther who relayed...

  June 2, 2025, Ester 2:1-18 2  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 the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them.  4  And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so. 5  Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,  6  who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebucha...

  June 1, 2025, Ester 1:10-22 10  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,  11  to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.  12  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him. 13  Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,  14  the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom):  15  “A...