All the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small 1:20
Trivia: What book did King Ahasuerus ask to be read to him to help him fall asleep?
The Bible in Fewer Words - Esther (3)
Injustice (14)
Cruelty & Violence (13)
Absurdity (10)
Intolerance (10)
Family Values (9)
Women (6)
Sex (4)
Contradictions (2)
Boring stuff (1)
The Book of Esther
1 Vashti refuses to entertain the king's drunken guests (1-22)
2 Esther wins the fair young virgin contest (and becomes queen) (1-18)
Two men are hanged for conspiring to kill the king (19-23)
3 Haman and the king schedule a kingdom-wide kill-the-Jews day (1-15)
4 Mordecai asks Esther for help (1-17)
Haman plans to hang Mordecai (9-14)
6 The king honors Mordecai (1-14)
7 Haman is hanged on the gallows he built to hang Mordecai (1-10)
8 The king permits the Jews to kill those who might kill them (1-17)
9 The Jews slaughter more than 75,000 people (1-16)
They celebrate the slaughter with a two-day party (Purim) (17-32)
