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+<book name='Esther' permalink='esther' id='17'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is  Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred  and seven and twenty provinces:)</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the  throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his  princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and  princes of the provinces, being before him:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the  honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and  fourscore days.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto  all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great  and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with  cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble:  the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and  white, and black, marble.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels  being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according  to the state of the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel:  for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that  they should do according to every man's pleasure.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the  royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry  with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha,  Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence  of Ahasuerus the king,</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown  royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair  to look on.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's  commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and  his anger burned in him.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times,  (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,  Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and  Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the  kingdom;)</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law,  because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by  the chamberlains?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti  the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the  princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the  king Ahasuerus.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women,  so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall  be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be  brought in before him, but she came not.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day  unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen.  Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from  him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the  Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king  Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is  better than she.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be  published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives  shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the  king did according to the word of Memucan:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into  every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people  after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house,  and that it should be published according to the language of every  people.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was  appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was  decreed against her.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let  there be fair young virgins sought for the king:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of  his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins  unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of  Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things  for purification be given them:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead  of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose  name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,  a Benjamite;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity  which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom  Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's  daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair  and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead,  took for his own daughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his  decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto  Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought  also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the  women.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of  him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such  things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be  given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids  unto the best place of the house of the women.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for  Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the  women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king  Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the  manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications  accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with  sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she  desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto  the king's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into  the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's  chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no  more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by  name.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the  uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go  in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's  chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained  favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal  in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of  his reign.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she  obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so  that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead  of Vashti.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and  his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the  provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when the virgins were gathered together the second time,  then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as  Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai,  like as when she was brought up with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of  the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the  door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther  the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found  out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in  the book of the chronicles before the king.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son  of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all  the princes that were with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate,  bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning  him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate,  said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he  hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether  Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him  reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for  they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to  destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of  Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth  year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman  from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that  is, the month Adar.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain  people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the  provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people;  neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's  profit to suffer them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>If it please the king, let it be written that they may be  destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands  of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the  king's treasuries.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto  Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee,  the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of  the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had  commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were  over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every  province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after  their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and  sealed with the king's ring.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's  provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both  young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the  thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to  take the spoil of them for a prey.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in  every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready  against that day.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The posts went out, being hastened by the king's  commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the  king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his  clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst  of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter  into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment  and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and  fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her.  Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe  Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it  not.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's  chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a  commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the  city, which was before the king's gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and  of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's  treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that  was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to  declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the  king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for  her people.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment  unto Mordecai;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>All the king's servants, and the people of the king's  provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come  unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law  of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out  the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to  come in unto the king these thirty days.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with  thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the  Jews.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then  shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another  place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who  knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in  Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days,  night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I  go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I  perish, I perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that  Esther had commanded him.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her  royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over  against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the  royal house, over against the gate of the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing  in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held  out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew  near, and touched the top of the sceptre.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther?  and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the  kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the  king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may  do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that  Esther had prepared.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What  is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request?  even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request  is;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it  please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let  the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them,  and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart:  but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up,  nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home,  he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the  multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had  promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and  servants of the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man  come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but  myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai  the Jew sitting at the king's gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let  a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto  the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily  with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he  caused the gallows to be made.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to  bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before  the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana  and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door,  who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to  Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto  him, There is nothing done for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come  into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to  hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman  standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be  done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought  in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to  myself?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king  delighteth to honour,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to  wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal  which is set upon his head:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of  one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man  withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback  through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it  be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the  apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai  the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that  thou hast spoken.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed  Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city,  and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the  king delighteth to honour.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted  to his house mourning, and having his head covered.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every  thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife  unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast  begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely  fall before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's  chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther  had prepared.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the  banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be  granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even  to the half of the kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found  favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be  given me at my petition, and my people at my request:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be  slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and  bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not  countervail the king's damage.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the  queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to  do so?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked  Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath  went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his  life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined  against him by the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the  place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon  Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me  in the house? As the word went out of king's mouth, they covered  Haman's face.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king,  Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for  Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.  Then the king said, Hang him thereon.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for  Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman  the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the  king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from  Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the  house of Haman.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at  his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman  the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So  Esther arose, and stood before the king,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his  sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in  his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the  son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which  are in all the king's provinces:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my  people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to  Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and  him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon  the Jews.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's  name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is  written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man  reverse.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the  third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day  thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded  unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of  the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and  seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof,  and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according  to their writing, and according to their language.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with  the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on  mules, camels, and young dromedaries:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city  to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy,  to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and  province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to  take the spoil of them for a prey,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely,  upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in  every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should  be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being  hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was  given at Shushan the palace.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the  king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness,  a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews;  for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>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;)</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>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 no man could withstand them; for the fear of  them fell upon all people.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the  sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto  those that hated them.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five  hundred men.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of  the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan  the palace was brought before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>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? now  what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy  request further? and it shall be done.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted  to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto  this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was  given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves  together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three  hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>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 and five thousand,  but they laid not their hands on the prey,</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the  fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting  and gladness.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the  thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the  fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting  and gladness.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the  unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of  gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to  another.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all  the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both  nigh and far,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>To stablish this among them, that they should keep the  fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same,  yearly,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as  Mordecai had written unto them;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy  of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had  cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>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  hanged on the gallows.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of  Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they  had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed,  and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not  fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing,  and according to their appointed time every year;</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout  every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and  that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the  memorial of them perish from their seed.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai  the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of  Purim.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred  twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of  peace and truth,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed,  according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them,  and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters  of the fastings and their cry.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim;  and it was written in the book.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and  upon the isles of the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the  declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced  him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of  Media and Persia?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>