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Bible translation used in today's episode: Ch. 1 NET, Ch. 2-4 NKJV, Ch. 5 GWT
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Podcast Introduction
It’s History Tuesday. We’ll read Esther 1-5. I’m calling this episode “Queen Vashti's Rebellion.“
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Summary
The book of Esther is set in the vast Persian Empire, ruled by King Ahasuerus (Xerxes). Ahasuerus throws extravagant banquets to display his power. Queen Vashti refuses his inappropriate request during one such event, leading to her removal as queen.
The text also mentions Ephesians 5, emphasizing that respect should be earned through love, not demanded through mistreatment. Ahasuerus could have avoided the situation if he had loved Vashti genuinely. The story continues in the next reading.
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Steve Webb 0:00I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I agree with Paul.
Steve Webb 0:04It's the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you from Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. I'm your OG Godcaster. Steve Webb. It's history Tuesday. and our reading is Esther one through five. The website is Lifespringmedia.com. and contact information will be at the end of today's show. Before we read, let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank You for Your Word. We pray God that as we read you would bless us. Teach us today we pray in Jesus name. Amen. All right, are you ready? Let's begin.
Steve Webb 0:41Esther is the final book of history in the Bible. We'll read about a character by the name of King Ahasuerus. He's better known as Xerxes to students of history. and he was the son of Darius the first whom we read about in the books of Ezra, Daniel and Haggai. It's interesting to note that the ruins of Ahasuerus' palace in which the events of this book took place have been unearthed by archaeologists, as the events of this book take place, Ahasuerus' is the largest empire, the Persian empire the world had ever seen up to that point, spanning modern Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and parts of Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and Arabia. So yeah, it was big. As the book takes place, Ezra had returned to Jerusalem, and 30 years before the temple had been rebuilt. 40 years later, under a hazard awareness, his successor or desert sees the first Nehemiah would return to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls.
Steve Webb 1:43Esther chapter one. The following events happened in the days of a heavy Waris, I'm referring to that A has you heiress who used to rule over 127 provinces, extending all the way from India to Ethiopia. In those days as Kenya has you era sat on his royal throne and Susa the Citadel. In the third year of his reign, he provided a banquet for all of his officials and his servants. The army of Persia and Media was present, as well as the nobles and the officials of the provinces. He displayed the riches of His royal glory in the splendor of His majestic greatness for a lengthy period of time. 180 days to be exact. When those days were completed, the king then provided a seven day banquet for all the people who were present in Susa, the Citadel for those of highest standing to the most lowly. It was held in the court located in the garden of the Royal Palace. The furnishings included white linen, and blue curtains hung by cords of the finest linen, and purple wool on silver rings, alabaster columns, gold and silver couches displayed on a floor made of valuable stones of alabaster, mother of pearl and mineral stone. drinks were served in Golden containers, all of which differed from one another. Royal wine was available in abundance at the Kings expense. There were no restrictions on the drinking for the king had instructed all his supervisors that they should do is every one so desired. Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in Kenya has you Waris, his royal palace on the seventh day is King has you Aris was feeling the effects of the wine he ordered me human because the heart Bona big fo a bag the Z Thor and carcass the seven Unix who attended him to bring Queen Vashti into the king's presence wearing her royal high turban. He wanted to show the people and the officials her beauty for she was very attractive. But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's bidding conveyed through the Unix. Then the king became extremely angry and his rage consumed him. The king then inquired of the Wiseman who were dissenters of the times for it was the royal custom to confer with all those who were proficient in laws and legalities. Those who were closest to him were car Sheena sheath are at Mesa Tarshish me res Martina and memudahkan these men with the seven officials of Persia and Media who saw the king on a regular basis and had the most prominent offices in the kingdom. The king asked by law what should be done to Queen Vashti in light of the fact that she is not obey the instructions of King a has you Eros conveyed through the Unix mum you can then reply to the king and the officials. The rung of Queen Vashti is not against the king alone but against all the officials and all the people who are throughout all the provinces of Kenya has you whereas, for the matter concerning the queen will spread to all the women leading them to treat their husbands with contempt, saying when King has you Eros gave orders to bring Queen Vashti into His presence she would not come and this very day the noble ladies of Persia in media who have heard the matter concerning the queen will respond And in the same way to all the royal officials, and there will be more than enough contempt and anger. If the king is so inclined, let a royal edict go forth from him, and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media that cannot be repealed that Vashti may not come into the presence of King has you, Eris, and let the King convey her royalty to another who was more deserving than she and let the king's decision that he will enact be disseminated throughout all his kingdom vast though it is, then all the women will give honor to their husbands from the most prominent to the lowly. The matter seemed appropriate to the king and the officials. So the king acted on the advice of mucus and he sent letters throughout all the royal provinces to each province according to its own script, and to each people according to its own language that every man should be ruling his family and should be speaking the language of his own people.
Steve Webb 5:54Esther chapter two. After these things when the wrath of King has us subsided, he remembered Vash tie what she had done, and what had been decreed against her. Then the king servants who attended him said, Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king, and let the King appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to Sham the Citadel into the women's quarters under the custody of Haggai the Kings unic custodian of the women, and let beauty preparations be given them. Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti this thing please the king and he did so. In Shu Shan, the Citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of shimmy AI the son of Kish, a Benjamites. Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jack Enya, king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. and Mordecai had brought up a dasa that is estar, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother, the young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. So it was when the king's command and decree were heard. and when many young women were gathered at Shu Shan, the Citadel under the custody of Haggai, that Esther also was taken to the king's palace into the care of Haggai, the custodian of the women. Now the young woman pleased him and she obtained his favor, so he readily gave beauty preparations to her besides her allowance. Then seven choice maid servants were provided for her from the king's palace, and he moved her and her maid servants to the best place in the house of the women. Esther had not revealed her people or family for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it. and every day Mordecai paste in front of the court of the women's quarters to learn investors, welfare and what was happening to her. Each young woman's turn came to go into King a has us after she had completed 12 months preparation. According to the regulations for the women. For the US were the days of their preparation apportioned six months with oil of Morocco, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king, and she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the women's quarters to the king's palace. In the evening she went and in the morning, she returned to the second house of the women to the custody of che ash gas, the king's unit who kept the concubines, she would not go into the king again unless the king delighted in her in called for her by name. Now, when the turn came for Esther, the daughter of Abba Hale, the uncle of Mordecai,
