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Identifier: storiesfromhebre00heer (find matches)
Title: Stories from the Hebrew
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Heermans, Josephine Woodbury, 1859-
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, andneither eat nor drink three days ; I also and my maidenswill fast likewise; and then I will go unto the king, andif I perish, I perish. Esther knew that anyone whowent before the king unless called was liable to be putto death. After the third day, she put on her royal apparel andwent to the king who said to her: What wilt thou,Queen Esther? It shall be given thee to the half ofthe kingdom. Esther asked the king to come to abanquet and bring Haman with him. While they wereat supper, the king asked her again : What is thy peti-tion ? But she only invited them to another banquet. Now Haman had a gallows fifty cubits high built forMordecai, because the king had honored Mordecai morethan he had Haman. When the king and Haman had come to Estherssecond banquet, the king asked her a third time : Whatis thy petition, Queen Esther? And Esther said : If I have found favor in thy sight,O king, and if it please the king, let my life be givenme at my petition and my people at my request ; for
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ESTHER ACCUSING HAMAN Gustav Dore ESTHER jjg we are sold, I and my people to be destroyed, to beslain, and to perish. Then the king was very angry and said : Who is heand where is he that durst do so ? Esther said : The adversary and enemy is thiswicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid. The king, arising from the banquet, in his wrath wentinto the palace-garden. When he returned one of thechamberlains of the king said : Behold the gallowsfifty cubits high that Haman had made for Mordecai. Then the king said : Hang Haman thereon. Then -was the kings wrath pacified. After that the good king Ahasuerus saved all theJews. He gave Mordecai royal apparel of blue andwhite, and a crown of gold. In the reign of Ahasuerusthe Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. ESTHER Ahasuerus. Believe me, dearest Esther, This sceptre, and the homage fear inspires Have little charm for me; the pomp of power Is oft a burden to its sad possessor. In thee, thee only, do I find a grace That never palls nor lo
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