A Twist in the Story
485- 465BC
Bible Reference: Esther
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- Mordecai was a Jewish man whose father was taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar. After the fall of Babylon, Mordecai relocates to Susa which was a metropolis in Persia.
- Mordecai raised his cousin Esther as his own after she lost her mother and father.
- Esther was selected as queen and Mordecai sat at the king’s gate, meaning he had held some office in the palace.
- Mordecai discovered a plot against the king and informed queen Esther, but was never rewarded.
- Haman was the son of Hammedatha the Agagite and served as prime minister to the Persian King Xerxes.
- When Mordecai paid him no honor and refused to kneel, Haman had the king issue a decree against all the Jewish people and ordered a set day that they would all be destroyed.
- Mordecai asked Esther to appeal before the King to save the Jewish people, and she agreed and asked Xerxes to a banquet, and Haman was also invited.
- Haman became angry with Mordecai again when he refused to bow, so he constructed gallows 75 feet high to kill him in a way that everyone in the city could see.
- Xerxes could not sleep the night of Haman’s evil plan and was reminded of how he never honored Mordecai, so he decided to do it the next morning.
- Haman was humiliated when he was the one who was asked to honor Mordecai in public.
- At Esther’s banquet, Haman’s evil actions against the Jews are made known, and he was hung on the exact gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.
- Through Mordecai and Esther’s actions, the Jewish people were saved.
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