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The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus
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| Jan Victors, 1640, Dutch Republic (Netherlands) |
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Bible Reference:
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Now
the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen. And the king said
to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, "What
is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request?
Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done." Then Queen Esther replied, "If
I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life
be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; for we have been sold,
I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we
had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for
the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king." Then King
Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to
do thus?" Esther said, "A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!" Then Haman became
terrified before the king and queen...
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This is a photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. This work is in the public domain in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author + 100 years or less.
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Ahasuerus, Bible, Esther, Esther 7:1, Haman, history, image, picture, public domain, Jan Victors, The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus, Xerxes
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