( Esther 2:19, 21 3:3) How the young Esther passed her time as she grew up, we can only guess, although it seems safe to say that she took good care of her older cousin and his home, which was likely situated in the humbler quarters across the river from the royal castle. 26:44, 45) Clearly, a loving and loyal bond grew between Esther and Mordecai.Ħ Mordecai evidently worked as some kind of official at the castle at Shushan, regularly sitting within its gate, along with other servants of the king. But Esther surely drew closer to her cousin as he taught her about Jehovah, the merciful God who had rescued His people from trouble many times in the past-and would do so again. (a) How did Mordecai raise Esther? (b) What kind of life did Esther and Mordecai lead in Shushan?ĥ Mordecai and Esther lived as Jewish exiles in that Persian capital, where they probably had to deal with a measure of disdain because of their religion and the Law they tried to follow. Mordecai had good reason to be proud of his adopted daughterĥ, 6. ģ Why did she take such a risk? And what can we learn from the faith of this remarkable woman? First, let us see how Esther got into the unusual position of being a queen in Persia. As she drew near to the inner courtyard, where she would be visible from the king’s throne, she may have felt that she was walking to her death.- Read Esther 4:11 5:1. Esther had not been summoned, but she was going to the king anyway. What was that? Well, the law said that anyone who appeared before the Persian monarch without first being summoned by the king was liable to death. Ahasuerus knew Persian law, though, including a law forbidding the very thing that Esther was about to do. 21:12) The king knew little or nothing of Esther’s God, Jehovah, or of His Law. All of it was intended to remind each visitor of the immense power of the man whom Esther was going to see, the one who called himself “the great king.” He was also her husband.Ģ Husband! How different Ahasuerus was from the kind of husband any faithful Jewish girl might have expected! * He did not look to such examples as Abraham, a man who humbly accepted God’s direction to listen to Sarah, his wife. Everything about the castle was designed to inspire awe-its multicolored relief sculptures of winged bulls, archers, and lions of glazed brickwork, its fluted stone columns and imposing statues, even its position atop huge platforms near the snowcapped Zagros Mountains and overlooking the pure waters of the river Choaspes. (a) Why might Esther have felt intimidated by the prospect of approaching her husband? (b) We will discuss what questions regarding Esther?ĮSTHER tried to calm her heart as she approached the courtyard in the palace at Shushan.
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