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===Chapter summaries===

===Chapter summaries===

 

#King Assuerus maketh a great feast. Queen Vasthi being sent for refuseth to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.

 

#Esther is advanced to be queen. Mordecai detecteth a plot against the king.

:1 King Assuerus maketh a great feast. Queen Vasthi being sent for refuseth to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.

#Aman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mordecai, and therefore procureth the king's decree to destroy the whole nation of the Jews.

:2 Esther is advanced to be queen. Mordecai detecteth a plot against the king.

#Mordecai desireth Esther to petition the king for the Jews. They join in fasting and prayer.

:3 Aman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mordecai, and therefore procureth the king's decree to destroy the whole nation of the Jews.

#Esther is graciously received: she inviteth the king and Aman to dinner. Aman prepareth a gibbet for Mordecai.

:4 Mordecai desireth Esther to petition the king for the Jews. They join in fasting and prayer.

#The king hearing of the good service done him by Mordecai, commandeth Aman to honour him next to the king, which he performeth.

:5 Esther is graciously received: she inviteth the king and Aman to dinner. Aman prepareth a gibbet for Mordecai.

#Esther's petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the gibbet he had prepared for Mordecai.

:6 The king hearing of the good service done him by Mordecai, commandeth Aman to honour him next to the king, which he performeth.

#Mordecai is advanced: Aman's letters are reversed.

:7 Esther's petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the gibbet he had prepared for Mordecai.

#The Jews kill their enemies that would have killed them. The days of Phurim are appointed to be kept holy.

:8 Mordecai is advanced: Aman's letters are reversed.

#Assuerus's greatness. Mordecai's dignity.<ref>''Douay-Rheims Bible'' Esther Chapter 10:4-13 ''includes Mordecai's remembrance of his dream at the beginning''</ref>

:9 The Jews kill their enemies that would have killed them. The days of Phurim are appointed to be kept holy.

#<i>The dream of Mordecai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was in the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome and put in this place.<ref>''Douay-Rheims Bible'' Esther Chapter 11:1 ''is the last verse of the Book of Esther in the Greek'', to which is sometimes appended, "Here endeth the book."</ref>

:10 Assuerus's greatness. Mordecai's dignity.<ref>''Douay-Rheims Bible'' Esther Chapter 10:4-13 ''includes Mordecai's remembrance of his dream at the beginning''</ref>

#Mordecai detects the conspiracy of the two eunuchs.

:11 The dream of Mordecai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was in the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome and put in this place.<ref>''Douay-Rheims Bible'' Esther Chapter 11:1 ''is the last verse of the Book of Esther in the Greek'', to which is sometimes appended, "Here endeth the book."</ref>

#A copy of the letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews. Mordecai's prayer for the people.

:12 Mordecai detects the conspiracy of the two eunuchs.

#The prayer of Esther for herself and her people.

:13 A copy of the letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews. Mordecai's prayer for the people.

#Esther comes into the king's presence: she is terrified, but God turns his heart.

:14 The prayer of Esther for herself and her people.

#A copy of the king's letter in favour of the Jews.</i>

:15 Esther comes into the king's presence: she is terrified, but God turns his heart.

:16 A copy of the king's letter in favour of the Jews.

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