![]() ![]() Our God and Father, we pray for your help, as we do routinely, because we actually believe ourselves to be tremendously in need of it both to be able to speak and to listen, certainly to understand, to obey your Word, to live in the light of its truth. ![]() Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.” And drinking was according to this edict: ‘There is no compulsion.’ For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired. Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king. There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones. And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him, while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days. “Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces, in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel, in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. And it gives me time to practice this afternoon. I had great difficulty reading some of the names after verse 9, so it’s an easy way for me to fix that: just don’t read them. , Esther chapter 1, and I’m just going to read the first nine verses. And if it’s helpful to you and you want to use one of the church Bibles, you’ll find Esther on page 410. I invite you to turn with me to the Old Testament, to the book of Esther. ![]()
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