17:009:024 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the
Agagite, the enemy of
all
the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them,
and
had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and
to
destroy
them;
17:009:025 But when Esther came before the king, he
commanded by letters
that
his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews,
should
return upon his own head, and that he and his sons
should
be hanged on the gallows.
17:009:026 Wherefore they called these days Purim
after the name of Pur.
Therefore
for all the words of this letter, and of that which
they
had seen concerning this matter, and which had come
unto
them,
17:009:027 The Jews ordained, and took upon them,
and upon their seed,
and
upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as
it
should
not fail, that they would keep these two days according
to
their writing, and according to their appointed time
every
year;
17:009:028 And that these days should be remembered
and kept throughout
every
generation, every family, every province, and every
city;
and that these days of Purim should not fail from among
the
Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
17:009:029 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of
Abihail, and Mordecai
the
Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second
letter
of Purim.
17:009:030 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews,
to the hundred
twenty
and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with
words
of peace and truth,
17:009:031 To confirm these days of Purim in their
times appointed,
according
as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had
enjoined
them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for
their
seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
17:009:032 And the decree of Esther confirmed these
matters of Purim; and
it
was written in the book.
17:010:001 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon
the land, and upon
the
isles of the sea.
17:010:002 And all the acts of his power and of his
might, and the
declaration
of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king
advanced
him, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles
of the kings of Media and Persia?
17:010:003 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king
Ahasuerus, and great
among
the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren,
seeking
the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all
his
seed.
Book 18 Job
18:001:001 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose
name was Job; and
that
man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God,
and
eschewed
evil.


