In this episode, Dr. Kurt Bjorklund continues a series on the book of Esther in Chapter 2. Today he talks about the history behind how Xerxes would have chosen a queen and how God is working in the trivial details and awful circumstances.
Today's Passage
Esther 2:1-4 (NIV) - Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them. Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.
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