And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. ... And in every province and in every city wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day.
Now in the twelfth month — that is, the month Adar — on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them — though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them — the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt. ... And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them; for Mordecai was great in the king’s house and his fame went out throughout all the provinces, for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater. ... On that day, the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman. ... What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? ... Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hung upon the gallows. ... And the king commanded it so to be done.
But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy-five thousand; but they laid not their hands on the prey.
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far, to establish this among them: that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device which he devised against the Jews should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hung on the gallows.
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and upon the isles of the sea. ... And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai unto which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? ... For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people and speaking peace to all his seed.
Then I would have been at rest with kings and counselors of the earth who built desolate places for themselves, or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver, or as a hidden untimely birth, I would not have been, as infants who never saw light.
He loosens the bond of kings, and girds their loins with a girdle.
They shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
I chose out their way, and sat chief and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked, and to princes, You are ungodly?
He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, yea, he does establish them for ever and they are exalted.
He is a king over all the children of pride.
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his severe displeasure, Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Be wise now therefore, O you kings.
Listen unto the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for unto you will I pray.
And the Lord shall be King for ever and ever over his people; for the wicked shall perish out of his land.
Great deliverance gives he to his king, and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever.
Let the king hear us when we call.
The king shall rejoice in your strength, O Lord, and in your salvation. ... You have made him exceedingly glad with your countenance, for the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.
And the Lord, strong and mighty — the Lord, mighty in battle, who is the King of glory — shall establish you for ever. ... And the Lord of Hosts, the King of kings, even the King of glory shall come unto you, and shall redeem his people, and shall establish them in righteousness.
Yea, the Lord sits King for ever.