Quotes About History

Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,

over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king

This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.

Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.

He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.

On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,

Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,

to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

So Estherís decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

And all of Mordecaiís powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.