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<bible version='kjv' description='The King James Bible with Strongs Numbers' language='ENG' strongs='true'>
  <book number='17' name='' abbreviation='Est' testament='old'>
    <chapter number='9'>
      <verse number='1'>Now in the <strongs number="8147 6240">twelfth</strongs><strongs number="2320">month</strongs>, <strongs number="1931">that</strongs><em> is </em>, the <strongs number="2320">month</strongs><strongs number="143">Adar</strongs>, on the <strongs number="7969 6240">thirteenth</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of the same, <strongs number="834">when</strongs>the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>'s <strongs number="1697">commandment</strongs>and his <strongs number="1881">decree</strongs>drew <strongs number="5060">near</strongs>to be put in <strongs number="6213">execution</strongs>, in the <strongs number="3117">day</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs>the <strongs number="341">enemies</strongs>of the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="7663">hoped</strongs>to have <strongs number="7980">power</strongs>over them, (though <strongs number="1931">it</strongs>was turned to the <strongs number="2015">contrary</strongs>, <strongs number="834">that</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>had rule <strongs number="7980">over</strongs><strongs number="1992">them</strongs>that <strongs number="8130">hated</strongs>them;) </verse>
      <verse number='2'>The <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs number="6950">together</strongs>in their <strongs number="5892">cities</strongs>throughout <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>of the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs><strongs number="325">Ahasuerus</strongs>, to <strongs number="7971">lay</strongs><strongs number="3027">hand</strongs>on such as <strongs number="1245">sought</strongs>their <strongs number="7451">hurt</strongs>: and <strongs number="3808">no</strongs><strongs number="376">man</strongs>could <strongs number="5975">withstand</strongs>them; <strongs number="3588">for</strongs>the <strongs number="6343">fear</strongs>of them <strongs number="5307">fell</strongs><strongs number="5921">upon</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs><strongs number="5971">people</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='3'>And <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="8269">rulers</strongs>of the <strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>, and the <strongs number="323">lieutenants</strongs>, and the <strongs number="6346">deputies</strongs>, and <strongs number="6213 4399">officers</strongs><strongs number="834">of</strongs>the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>, <strongs number="5375">helped</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>; <strongs number="3588">because</strongs>the <strongs number="6343">fear</strongs>of <strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs><strongs number="5307">fell</strongs><strongs number="5921">upon</strongs>them. </verse>
      <verse number='4'><strongs number="3588">For</strongs><strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs><em> was </em><strongs number="1419">great</strongs>in the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>'s <strongs number="1004">house</strongs>, and his <strongs number="8089">fame</strongs>went <strongs number="1980">out</strongs>throughout <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>: <strongs number="3588">for</strongs>this <strongs number="376">man</strongs><strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs><strongs number="1980">waxed</strongs>greater and <strongs number="1419">greater</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='5'>Thus the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="5221">smote</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs>their <strongs number="341">enemies</strongs>with the <strongs number="4347">stroke</strongs>of the <strongs number="2719">sword</strongs>, and <strongs number="2027">slaughter</strongs>, and <strongs number="12">destruction</strongs>, and <strongs number="6213">did</strongs>what they <strongs number="7522">would</strongs>unto those that <strongs number="8130">hated</strongs>them. </verse>
      <verse number='6'>And in <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>the <strongs number="1002">palace</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="2026">slew</strongs>and <strongs number="6">destroyed</strongs><strongs number="2568">five</strongs><strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs><strongs number="376">men</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='7'>And <strongs number="6577">Parshandatha</strongs>, and <strongs number="1813">Dalphon</strongs>, and <strongs number="630">Aspatha</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='8'>And <strongs number="6334">Poratha</strongs>, and <strongs number="118">Adalia</strongs>, and <strongs number="743">Aridatha</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='9'>And <strongs number="6534">Parmashta</strongs>, and <strongs number="747">Arisai</strongs>, and <strongs number="742">Aridai</strongs>, and <strongs number="2055">Vajezatha</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='10'>The <strongs number="6235">ten</strongs><strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>of <strongs number="2001">Haman</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>of <strongs number="4099">Hammedatha</strongs>, the <strongs number="6887">enemy</strongs>of the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>, <strongs number="2026">slew</strongs>they; but on the <strongs number="961">spoil</strongs><strongs number="7971">laid</strongs>they <strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>their <strongs number="3027">hand</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='11'>On <strongs number="1931">that</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>the <strongs number="4557">number</strongs>of those that were <strongs number="2026">slain</strongs>in <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>the <strongs number="1002">palace</strongs>was <strongs number="935">brought</strongs><strongs number="6440">before</strongs>the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='12'>And the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs>unto <strongs number="635">Esther</strongs>the <strongs number="4436">queen</strongs>, The <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>have <strongs number="2026">slain</strongs>and <strongs number="6">destroyed</strongs><strongs number="2568">five</strongs><strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs><strongs number="376">men</strongs>in <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>the <strongs number="1002">palace</strongs>, and the <strongs number="6235">ten</strongs><strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>of <strongs number="2001">Haman</strongs>; <strongs number="4100">what</strongs>have they <strongs number="6213">done</strongs>in the <strongs number="7605">rest</strongs>of the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>'s <strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>? now <strongs number="4100">what</strongs><em> is </em>thy <strongs number="7596">petition</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs number="5414">granted</strongs>thee: or <strongs number="4100">what</strongs><em> is </em>thy <strongs number="1246">request</strongs><strongs number="5750">further</strongs>? and it shall be <strongs number="6213">done</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='13'>Then <strongs number="559">said</strongs><strongs number="635">Esther</strongs>, <strongs number="518">If</strongs>it <strongs number="2895 5921">please</strongs>the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>, let it be <strongs number="5414">granted</strongs>to the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="834">which</strongs><em> are </em>in <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>to <strongs number="6213">do</strongs><strongs number="4279">tomorrow</strongs><strongs number="1571">also</strongs>according unto this <strongs number="3117">day</strongs>'s <strongs number="1881">decree</strongs>, and let <strongs number="2001">Haman</strongs>'s <strongs number="6235">ten</strongs><strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>be <strongs number="8518">hanged</strongs><strongs number="5921">upon</strongs>the <strongs number="6086">gallows</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='14'>And the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs><strongs number="559">commanded</strongs>it <strongs number="3651">so</strongs>to be <strongs number="6213">done</strongs>: and the <strongs number="1881">decree</strongs>was <strongs number="5414">given</strongs>at <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>; and they <strongs number="8518">hanged</strongs><strongs number="2001">Haman</strongs>'s <strongs number="6235">ten</strongs><strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='15'>For the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em>in <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs number="6950">together</strongs>on the <strongs number="702 6240">fourteenth</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs><strongs number="1571">also</strongs>of the <strongs number="2320">month</strongs><strongs number="143">Adar</strongs>, and <strongs number="2026">slew</strongs><strongs number="7969">three</strongs><strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs><strongs number="376">men</strongs>at <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>; but on the <strongs number="961">prey</strongs>they <strongs number="7971">laid</strongs><strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>their <strongs number="3027">hand</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='16'>But the <strongs number="7605">other</strongs><strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em>in the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>'s <strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs number="6950">together</strongs>, and <strongs number="5975">stood</strongs><strongs number="5921">for</strongs>their <strongs number="5315">lives</strongs>, and had <strongs number="5117">rest</strongs>from their <strongs number="4480 341">enemies</strongs>, and <strongs number="2026">slew</strongs>of their <strongs number="8130">foes</strongs><strongs number="7657">seventy</strongs>and <strongs number="2568">five</strongs><strongs number="505">thousand</strongs>, but they <strongs number="7971">laid</strongs><strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>their <strongs number="3027">hands</strongs>on the <strongs number="961">prey</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='17'>On the <strongs number="7969 6240">thirteenth</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of the <strongs number="2320">month</strongs><strongs number="143">Adar</strongs>; and on the <strongs number="702 6240">fourteenth</strongs>day of the same <strongs number="5117">rested</strongs>they, and <strongs number="6213">made</strongs>it a <strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of <strongs number="4960">feasting</strongs>and <strongs number="8057">gladness</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='18'>But the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em>at <strongs number="7800">Shushan</strongs>assembled <strongs number="6950">together</strongs>on the <strongs number="7969 6240">thirteenth</strongs><em> day </em>thereof, and on the <strongs number="702 6240">fourteenth</strongs>thereof; and on the <strongs number="2568 6240">fifteenth</strongs><em> day </em>of the same they <strongs number="5117">rested</strongs>, and <strongs number="6213">made</strongs>it a <strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of <strongs number="4960">feasting</strongs>and <strongs number="8057">gladness</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='19'><strongs number="5921 3651">Therefore</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>of the <strongs number="6521">villages</strongs>, that <strongs number="3427">dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs number="6519">unwalled</strongs><strongs number="5892">towns</strongs>, <strongs number="6213">made</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="702 6240">fourteenth</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of the <strongs number="2320">month</strongs><strongs number="143">Adar</strongs><em> a </em><em> day </em><em> of </em><strongs number="8057">gladness</strongs>and <strongs number="4960">feasting</strongs>, and a <strongs number="2896">good</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>, and of <strongs number="4916">sending</strongs><strongs number="4490">portions</strongs><strongs number="376">one</strongs>to <strongs number="7453">another</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='20'>And <strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs><strongs number="3789">wrote</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="1697">things</strongs>, and <strongs number="7971">sent</strongs><strongs number="5612">letters</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em>in <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>of the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs><strongs number="325">Ahasuerus</strongs>, <em> both </em><strongs number="7138">nigh</strongs>and <strongs number="7350">far</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='21'>To <strongs number="6965">establish</strongs><em> this </em><strongs number="5921">among</strongs>them, that they <strongs number="1961">should</strongs><strongs number="6213">keep</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="702 6240">fourteenth</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of the <strongs number="2320">month</strongs><strongs number="143">Adar</strongs>, and the <strongs number="2568 6240">fifteenth</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>of the same, <strongs number="3605 8141 8141">yearly</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='22'>As the <strongs number="3117">days</strongs><strongs number="834">wherein</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="5117">rested</strongs>from their <strongs number="4480 341">enemies</strongs>, and the <strongs number="2320">month</strongs><strongs number="834">which</strongs>was <strongs number="2015">turned</strongs>unto them from <strongs number="4480 3015">sorrow</strongs>to <strongs number="8057">joy</strongs>, and from <strongs number="4480 60">mourning</strongs>into a <strongs number="2896">good</strongs><strongs number="3117">day</strongs>: that they should <strongs number="6213">make</strongs>them <strongs number="3117">days</strongs>of <strongs number="4960">feasting</strongs>and <strongs number="8057">joy</strongs>, and of <strongs number="4916">sending</strongs><strongs number="4490">portions</strongs><strongs number="376">one</strongs>to <strongs number="7453">another</strongs>, and <strongs number="4979">gifts</strongs>to the <strongs number="34">poor</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='23'>And the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="6901">undertook</strongs>to <strongs number="6213">do</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="834">as</strongs>they had <strongs number="2490">begun</strongs>, and <strongs number="834">as</strongs><strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs>had <strongs number="3789">written</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>them; </verse>
      <verse number='24'><strongs number="3588">Because</strongs><strongs number="2001">Haman</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>of <strongs number="4099">Hammedatha</strongs>, the <strongs number="91">Agagite</strongs>, the <strongs number="6887">enemy</strongs>of <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>, had <strongs number="2803">devised</strongs><strongs number="5921">against</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>to <strongs number="6">destroy</strongs>them, and had <strongs number="5307">cast</strongs><strongs number="6332">Pur</strongs>, <strongs number="1931">that</strongs><em> is </em>, the <strongs number="1486">lot</strongs>, to <strongs number="2000">consume</strongs>them, and to <strongs number="6">destroy</strongs>them; </verse>
      <verse number='25'>But when <em> Esther </em><strongs number="935">came</strongs><strongs number="6440">before</strongs>the <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>, he <strongs number="559">commanded</strongs><strongs number="5973">by</strongs><strongs number="5612">letters</strongs>that his <strongs number="7451">wicked</strongs><strongs number="4284">device</strongs>, <strongs number="834">which</strongs>he <strongs number="2803">devised</strongs><strongs number="5921">against</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>, should <strongs number="7725">return</strongs><strongs number="5921">upon</strongs>his own <strongs number="7218">head</strongs>, and that he and his <strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>should be <strongs number="8518">hanged</strongs><strongs number="5921">on</strongs>the <strongs number="6086">gallows</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='26'><strongs number="5921 3651">Wherefore</strongs>they <strongs number="7121">called</strongs><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="3117">days</strongs><strongs number="6332">Purim</strongs><strongs number="5921">after</strongs>the <strongs number="8034">name</strongs>of <strongs number="6332">Pur</strongs>. <strongs number="5921 3651">Therefore</strongs><strongs number="5921">for</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="1697">words</strongs>of <strongs number="2063">this</strongs><strongs number="107">letter</strongs>, and <em> of </em><em> that </em><strongs number="4100">which</strongs>they had <strongs number="7200">seen</strongs><strongs number="5921">concerning</strongs>this <strongs number="3602">matter</strongs>, and <strongs number="4100">which</strongs>had <strongs number="5060">come</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>them, </verse>
      <verse number='27'>The <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs><strongs number="6965">ordained</strongs>, and <strongs number="6901">took</strongs><strongs number="5921">upon</strongs>them, and <strongs number="5921">upon</strongs>their <strongs number="2233">seed</strongs>, and <strongs number="5921">upon</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs>such as joined <strongs number="3867">themselves</strongs><strongs number="5921">unto</strongs>them, so as it should <strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="5674">fail</strongs>, that they would <strongs number="6213">keep</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="8147">two</strongs><strongs number="3117">days</strongs>according to their <strongs number="3791">writing</strongs>, and according to their <em><strongs number="2165">appointed</strongs></em><strongs number="3605">every</strongs><strongs number="8141 8141">year</strongs>; </verse>
      <verse number='28'>And <em> that </em><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="3117">days</strongs><em> should </em><em> be </em><strongs number="2142">remembered</strongs>and <strongs number="6213">kept</strongs>throughout <strongs number="3605">every</strongs><strongs number="1755 1755">generation</strongs>, every <strongs number="4940 4940">family</strongs>, every <strongs number="4082 4082">province</strongs>, and every <strongs number="5892 5892">city</strongs>; and <em> that </em><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="3117">days</strongs>of <strongs number="6332">Purim</strongs>should <strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="5674">fail</strongs>from <strongs number="4480 8432">among</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>, <strongs number="3808">nor</strongs>the <strongs number="2143">memorial</strongs>of them <strongs number="5486">perish</strongs>from their <strongs number="4480 2233">seed</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='29'>Then <strongs number="635">Esther</strongs>the <strongs number="4436">queen</strongs>, the <strongs number="1323">daughter</strongs>of <strongs number="32">Abihail</strongs>, and <strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jew</strongs>, <strongs number="3789">wrote</strongs><strongs number="854">with</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs><strongs number="8633">authority</strongs>, to <strongs number="6965">confirm</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="2063">this</strongs><strongs number="8145">second</strongs><strongs number="107">letter</strongs>of <strongs number="6332">Purim</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='30'>And he <strongs number="7971">sent</strongs>the <strongs number="5612">letters</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jews</strongs>, <strongs number="413">to</strongs>the <strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs><strongs number="6242">twenty</strongs>and <strongs number="7651">seven</strongs><strongs number="4082">provinces</strongs>of the <strongs number="4438">kingdom</strongs>of <strongs number="325">Ahasuerus</strongs>, <em> with </em><strongs number="1697">words</strongs>of <strongs number="7965">peace</strongs>and <strongs number="571">truth</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='31'>To <strongs number="6965">confirm</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="3117">days</strongs>of <strongs number="6332">Purim</strongs>in their <strongs number="2165">times</strongs><em> appointed </em>, according <strongs number="834">as</strongs><strongs number="4782">Mordecai</strongs>the <strongs number="3064">Jew</strongs>and <strongs number="635">Esther</strongs>the <strongs number="4436">queen</strongs>had <strongs number="6965 5921">enjoined</strongs>them, and <strongs number="834">as</strongs>they had <strongs number="6965">decreed</strongs><strongs number="5921">for</strongs><strongs number="5315">themselves</strongs>and <strongs number="5921">for</strongs>their <strongs number="2233">seed</strongs>, the <strongs number="1697">matters</strongs>of the <strongs number="6685">fastings</strongs>and their <strongs number="2201">cry</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='32'>And the <strongs number="3982">decree</strongs>of <strongs number="635">Esther</strongs><strongs number="6965">confirmed</strongs><strongs number="428">these</strongs><strongs number="1697">matters</strongs>of <strongs number="6332">Purim</strongs>; and it was <strongs number="3789">written</strongs>in the <strongs number="5612">book</strongs>. </verse>
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