. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . l, may take heed and do as they aretold. The king and all the lords thought these werewise words. And the king made it a law that a manshould rule in his own house. Then some of the kings men, whose place it wasto wait on him, came to him and said it would bea good plan for him to have all the fair maids in theland brought to his house, that he might choose oneof them to be queen, in the place of Vash-ti. And the king did as they said. Now there was a Jew in the kings house, whosename was Mor-de
. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . l, may take heed and do as they aretold. The king and all the lords thought these werewise words. And the king made it a law that a manshould rule in his own house. Then some of the kings men, whose place it wasto wait on him, came to him and said it would bea good plan for him to have all the fair maids in theland brought to his house, that he might choose oneof them to be queen, in the place of Vash-ti. And the king did as they said. Now there was a Jew in the kings house, whosename was Mor-de-ca-i. He was a poor man, andwas there to wait on the king. And there was a maid named Es-ther, who wasone of his kins-folk. And she was fair of face, andfull of grace. And when the word went forth from the king,scores and scores of fair young maids came to thekings house, and Es-ther came with them. Andone of the kings men had them all in his charge. This man was so pleased with Es-ther that he wasmore kind to her than he was to the rest, and sentmaids to wait on her, and put her and her maids. ES-THER AND THE KING, (229) 230 History of the Old Testament. in the best part of the house where the wo-men Es-ther had not let it be known that her folkswere Jews, for Mor-de-ca-i had told her not to tell it. As soon as the king saw Es-ther he fell in lovewith her, and set the crown on her head, and madeher queen in the place of Vash-ti. Then the king made a great feast, and gave giftsto the poor for the new queens sake. And she hadnot yet made it known that her folks were Jews. Now two of the kings men, who stood on guardat the doors of his house, were wroth with the kingand sought to kill him. And their plot was known to Mor-de-ca-i, whowas a watch-man at the kings gate. And he told itto Es-ther, and she told it to the king, and both ofthe men were hung. And what Mor-de-ca-i haddone to save the kings life was put down in a book. And in this same book was set down all that t
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