Discovery BoxEsther 1:13 
Context1:13 The king then inquired of the wise men who were discerners of the times – for it was the royal custom to confer with all those who were proficient in laws and legalities. 1
Esther 1:16
Context1:16 Memucan then replied to the king and the officials, “The wrong 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 King Ahasuerus.
Esther 1:20
Context1:20 And let the king’s decision which he will enact be disseminated 2 throughout all his kingdom, vast though it is. 3 Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the most prominent to the lowly.”
Esther 4:7
Context4:7 Then Mordecai related to him everything that had happened to him, even the specific amount of money that Haman had offered to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews to be destroyed.
Esther 5:11
Context5:11 Haman then recounted to them his fabulous wealth, 4 his many sons, 5 and how the king had magnified him and exalted him over the king’s other officials and servants.
Esther 6:4
Context6:4 Then the king said, “Who is that in the courtyard?” Now Haman had come to the outer courtyard of the palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had constructed for him.
Esther 8:2-3
Context8:2 The king then removed his signet ring (the very one he had taken back from Haman) and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther designated Mordecai to be in charge of Haman’s estate.
8:3 Then Esther again spoke with the king, falling at his feet. She wept and begged him for mercy, that he might nullify the evil of Haman the Agagite which he had intended against the Jews. 6
Esther 8:10
Context8:10 Mordecai 7 wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. He then sent letters by couriers on horses, who rode royal horses that were very swift.
Esther 9:15
Context9:15 The Jews who were in Susa then assembled on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred men in Susa. But they did not confiscate their property.
Esther 9:17
Context9:17 All of this happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. They then rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day for banqueting and happiness.
1 tn Heb “judgment” (so KJV); NASB, NIV “justice”; NRSV “custom.”
2 tn Heb “heard”; KJV, NAB, NLT “published”; NIV, NRSV “proclaimed.”
3 tc The phrase “vast though it is” is not included in the LXX, although it is retained by almost all English versions.
4 tn Heb “the glory of his riches” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “the splendor of his riches.”
5 sn According to Esth 9:10 Haman had ten sons.
6 sn As in 7:4 Esther avoids implicating the king in this plot. Instead Haman is given sole responsibility for the plan to destroy the Jews.
7 tn Heb “He”; the referent (Mordecai) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
