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Chapter two takes place 3-4 years after chapter one (compare Esther 1:3 with Esther 2:12, 16). During this time, Xerxes did attack Greece and was beaten. He returned home dejected and looking for comfort, only to remember what he had done to Vashti before he left (Esther 2:1). Someone suggested that a new, younger queen […]
The book of Esther stands apart in the Scriptures in several ways. First, it is one of only two books named after a woman, the other being Ruth. Second, and often overlooked, is the realization that heroine of the story was never portrayed as a faithful servant of God. In fact, she committed several violations
For modern scholars to reject Daniel simply because they do not believe it could have happened as stated is to arrogantly set themselves against 2,500 years of Jewish scholarship, the Hebrew prophets, and the Savior himself.
