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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF EST 2:1 Khushrush Grieves after Dismissing Vashti.
After these events the fury of King Khushrush having subsided, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.
RF EST 2:2 So the personal attendants of the King advised the King to seek young girls of charming beauty for the King.
RF EST 2:3 The King consequently appointed officers in all the provinces of his Empire, who collected all the charmingly beautiful maiden girls to the Palace of Shushan, to the women's apartments, under the control of Hegai, the eunuch of the King, the Guardian of the wives, to give them baths;
RF EST 2:4 and the girl who might be pleasing to the eyes of the King was to reign instead of Vashti. This suggestion was good in the opinion of the King, and it was adopted.
RF EST 2:5 History of Esther.
There was a man, a Jew, an attendant in the Palace of Shushan, whose name was Mordecai-ben-Jair-ben-Shimei-ben-Kish, a man of Benjamin,
RF EST 2:6 who had been carried from Jerusalem with the transports, when Jeconiah, the King of Judah, was transported by King Nebukadnezzar to Babel, and he had brought up Hadassah,—who is Esther,—his niece,
RF EST 2:7 for she had neither father nor mother, and the girl was exceedingly beautiful, and attractive to look at, and on the death of her father and mother Mordecai took her to his own home.
RF EST 2:8 And when the command and decree of the King was published, and many girls were collected at the Palace of Shushan under the care of Hegai, Esther was also taken to the Palace of the King, the care of Hegai, the Guardian of the wives;
RF EST 2:9 and the girl was attractive in his opinion, and she acquired kindness from him, and he hastened her preparations, and the appointments to be given to her, and selected seven girls to be given to her from the royal household. He also removed her and her maids to the house of the handsome women.
RF EST 2:10 Esther, however, did not inform her people or her relatives, for Mordecai had ordered her not to inform them.
RF EST 2:11 But every day Mordecai walked before the Court of the women's house, to enquire about the health of Esther, and what was done with her.
RF EST 2:12 The Royal Marriage Custom in Ancient Persia.
When a girl's turn came, and that girl went to King Khushrush, at the end of her preparations according to the usage of the women, during twelve months,—for then the period of the baths were accomplished,—six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes, and female baths.
RF EST 2:13 The girl went to the King in this way;—all that she asked for was given to her to accompany her from the women's apartments to the apartment of the King.
RF EST 2:14 She went in the evening, and returned in the morning to the apartment of the secondary wives, to the care of Shashgaz, the Royal Eunuch, Guardian of the favorites. She never again went to the King, except the King was pleased with her, and might invite her by name.
RF EST 2:15 Esther Made Queen.
But when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai, who had adopted her as a daughter, arrived to go to the King, she did not request anything, except what Hegai, the Royal Eunuch, the Guardian of women suggested. Yet Esther found admiration from the eyes of all who saw her.
RF EST 2:16 Thus Esther was taken to the apartment of King Khushrush in the tenth month,—which is the month Tebeth,—in the seventh year of his reign.
RF EST 2:17 And the King loved Esther more than all the women, and she acquired favour and consideration with the King more than all the girls, so he placed the Queenly crown on her head, and she Queened instead of Vashti.
RF EST 2:18 Mordecai Promoted to the Royal Court.
The King also made a great feast on the occasion to all his Nobles and Ministers,—the feast of Esther,—and made a remission to his provinces, and distributed presents from the King's hand.
RF EST 2:19 And when the girls were assembled again, then Mordecai was promoted to the Royal Court.
RF EST 2:20 Esther, however, had not disclosed this to her relatives, or her people, as Mordecai had instructed her;—for Esther did as Mordecai commanded her, the same as when she was brought up by him.
RF EST 2:21 Mordecai Discovers a Conspiracy.
During the period when Mordecai sat in the Royal Court, two of the Royal Chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of the Guardians of the Gate, were insulted, so they conspired to assail King Khushrush.
RF EST 2:22 But Mordecai was informed of the affair, and reported it to the Queen Esther, and Esther told it to the King, in the name of Mordecai.
RF EST 2:23 So he enquired into the matter and discovered it, and hung both of them on a tree, and had it recorded in the record of the daily events before the King.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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