Esther #catechesis/bible/esther
Old Testament · Old Testament History · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Esther 1 — King Assuerus makes a great feast. Queen Vasthi being sent for refuses to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.
- Esther 2 — Esther is advanced to be queen. Mardochai detects a plot against the king.
- Esther 3 — Aman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mardochai, and therefore procures the king’s decree to destroy the whole nation of the Jews.
- Esther 4 — Mardochai desires Esther to petition the king for the Jews. They join in fasting and prayer.
- Esther 5 — Esther is graciously received: she invites the king and Aman to dinner, Aman prepares a gibbet for Mardochai.
- Esther 6 — The king hearing of the good service done him by Mardochai, commands Aman to honour him next to the king, which he performs.
- Esther 7 — Esther’s petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the gibbet he had prepared for Mardochai.
- Esther 8 — Mardochai is advanced: Aman’s letters are reversed.
- Esther 9 — The Jews kill their enemies that would have killed them. The days of Phurim are appointed to be kept holy.
- Esther 10 — Assuerus’ greatness. Mardochai’s dignity.
- Esther 11 — The dream of Mardochai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was into the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome, and put in this place.
- Esther 12 — Mardochai detects the conspiracy of the two eunuchs.
- Esther 13 — A copy of a letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews. Mardochai’s prayer for the people.
- Esther 14 — The prayer of Esther for herself and her people.
- Esther 15 — Esther comes into the king’s presence: she is terrified, but God turns his heart.
- Esther 16 — A copy of the king’s letter in favour of the Jews.
[!info] Source
New Advent na2 — Septuagint/Greek · Douay-Rheims · Clementine Vulgate.
