Bible Verses

These letters, written in King Ahasuerus’s name and sealed with the royal signet ring, were delivered by couriers riding the king’s thoroughbred horses.

The royal scribes were summoned on that very day, the twenty-third of the third month of Sivan, and as Mordecai dictated, they wrote an order to the Jews, to the satraps, governors, and officials of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia, in their scripts and languages—each in its own.

Now you can write a decree concerning the Jews, in the king’s name, and seal it with the royal signet ring; any document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring cannot be revoked.”

King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew: “I have given Haman’s house to Esther and had Haman hanged on the gallows for plotting to destroy the Jews.

How can I bear to see the destruction of my people, the extermination of my race?”

“If it pleases your Majesty, and if I am pleasing to your eyes and have found favor with you, and if you think it proper to do so, let an order be issued revoking the letters that Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews throughout all the royal provinces.

The king extended the golden scepter to her, and she rose and stood before him saying:

Once again, Esther was able to get the king’s attention. Weeping and falling before him, she begged him to stop Haman the Agagite’s evil plot against the Jews.

The king removed his signet ring, which he had recovered from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai, whom Esther appointed in charge of Haman’s house.

Triumph of the Jews On the same day, King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther Haman’s house, the enemy of the Jews. Mordecai was brought before the king because Esther had revealed his relation to her.