Friday
- 18-Feb-2011; (14-Adar1-5771). Day 6 before Shabbat - Parasha Ki Tisa - When
You Take - (Purim Katan - Minor Feast of Esther).
Purim
Katan:
Esther
1.,2.,3.,4.,5.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The King Dethrones Queen Vashti.
. Esther! \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Now it happened in the days of
Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one
hundred twenty-seven provinces),
2 that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus
sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
3 in the third year of his reign, he made a
feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the
nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.
4 He displayed the riches of his glorious
kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred
eighty days.
5 When these days were fulfilled, the king made
a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Shushan the palace,
both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
6 There were hangings of white, green, and blue
material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and
marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red,
white, yellow, and black marble.
7 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of
various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of
the king.
8 In accordance with the decree, the drinking
was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his
house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the
women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.
10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the
king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and
Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of
Ahasuerus the king,
11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king
with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she
was beautiful.
12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the
king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his
anger burned in him.
13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew
the times, (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew decree and
judgment;
14 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar,
Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and
Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),
15 “What shall we do to the queen Vashti
according to decree, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus
by the eunuchs?”
16 Memucan answered before the king and the
princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all
the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King
Ahasuerus.
17 For this deed of the queen will become known
to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is
reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before
him, but she didn’t come.’
18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media
who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will
cause much contempt and wrath.
19 “If it please the king, let a royal commandment
go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the
Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before
King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better
than she.
20 When the king’s decree which he shall make
is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will
give their husbands honor, both great and small.”
21 This advice pleased the king and the
princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
22 for he sent letters into all the king’s
provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in
their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the
language of his own people.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\ 2.. Esther Becomes Queen. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
After these things, when the wrath
of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done,
and what was decreed against her.
2 Then the king’s servants who served him said,
“Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
3 Let the king appoint officers in all the
provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young
virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai
the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be
queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.
5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of
Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of
Kish, a Benjamite,
6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with
the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his
uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair
and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for
his own daughter.
8 So it happened, when the king’s commandment
and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the
citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king’s
house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained
kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and
the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He
moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.
10 Esther had not made known her people nor her
relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it
known.
11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the
court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would
become of her.
12 Each young woman’s turn came to go in to
King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days
of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six
months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).
13 The young woman then came to the king like
this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s
house to the king’s house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the next day
she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the
king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless
the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of
Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go
in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the
keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those
who looked at her.
16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into
his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh
year of his reign.
17 The king loved Esther more than all the
women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the
virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead
of Vashti.
18 Then the king made a great feast for all his
princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in
the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.
19 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Mordecai Discovers a Plot. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
When the virgins were gathered
together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives
nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like
she did when she was brought up by him.
21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in
the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were
doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who
informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.
23 When this matter was investigated, and it
was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the
book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\ 3.. Haman's Conspiracy Against
the Jews. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
After these things King Ahasuerus
promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his
seat above all the princes who were with him.
2 All the king’s servants who were in the
king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded
concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.
3 Then the king’s servants, who were in the
king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to
him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether
Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down,
nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on
Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman
sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of
Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan,
in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before
Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month,
which is the month Adar.
8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a
certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the
provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s.
They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to
allow them to remain.
9 If it pleases the king, let it be written
that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the
hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the
king’s treasuries.”
10 The king took his ring from his hand, and
gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is given
to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
12 Then the king’s scribes were called in on
the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman
commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over
every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according
its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name
of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the
king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both
young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth
day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their
possessions.
14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should
be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they
should be ready against that day.
15 The couriers went forth in haste by the
king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The
king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\ 4.. Esther Agrees to Help the
Jews. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Now when Mordecai found out all
that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and
went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.
2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no
one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 In every province, wherever the king’s
commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and
fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and
told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to
Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.
5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the
king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to
Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.
6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city
square which was before the king’s gate.
7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to
him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the
king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of
the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther,
and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make
supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of
Mordecai.
10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a
message to Mordecai:
11 “All the king’s servants, and the people of
the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the
king into the inner court without being called, there is one decree for him,
that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the
golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king
these thirty days.”
12 They told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
13 Then Mordecai asked them return answer to
Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any
more than all the Jews.
14 For if you remain silent now, then relief
and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your
father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for
such a time as this?”
15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are
present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days,
night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in
to the king, which is against the decree; and if I perish, I perish.”
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according
to all that Esther had commanded him.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\ 5.. Esther's Banquet. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal
clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s
house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the
entrance of the house.
2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing
in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther
the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the
top of the scepter.
3 Then the king asked her, “What would you
like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the
half of the kingdom.”
4 Esther said, “If it seems good to the king,
let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”
5 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so
that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the
banquet that Esther had prepared.
6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of
wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request?
Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
7 Then Esther answered and said, “My petition
and my request is this.
8 If I have found favor in the sight of the
king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request,
let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I
will do tomorrow as the king has said.”
9 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Haman's Plot Against Mordecai. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Then Haman went out that day
joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that
he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and
went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his
riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had
promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the
king.
12 Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let
no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself;
and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I
see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends
said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak
to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to
the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Exodus
17:8-16.
8 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Victory over the Amalekites. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Then Amalek came and fought with
Israel in Rephidim.
9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and
go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with
ELOHIM’s rod in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and
fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand,
that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a
stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady
until sunset.
13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with
the edge of the sword.
14 YHWH said to Moses, “Write this for a
memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly
blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
15 Moses built an altar, and called its name
YHWH our Banner.
16 He said, “YAH has sworn: ‘YHWH will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
KiTisa
(continued):
Romans
15.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Bearing Others' Burdens. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Now we who are strong ought to
bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for
that which is good, to be building him up.
3 For even Messiah didn’t please himself. But,
as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
4 For whatever things were written before were
written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of
the Scriptures we might have hope.
5 Now the ELOHIM of patience and of
encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to
Messiah YESHUA,
6 that with one accord you may with one mouth
glorify the ELOHIM and Father of our ADONAI YESHUA the Messiah.
7 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Glorify ELOHIM Together. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Therefore accept one another, even
as Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of ELOHIM!
8 Now I say that Messiah has been made a
servant of the circumcision for the truth of ELOHIM, that he might confirm the
promises given to the fathers,
9 and that the Gentiles might glorify ELOHIM
for his mercy. As it is written,
“Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
10 Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
11 Again,
“Praise ADONAI, all you Gentiles!
Let all the peoples praise him.”
12 Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the
Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will
hope.”
13 Now may the ELOHIM of hope fill you with all
joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the
Holy Spirit.
14 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. From Jerusalem to Illyricum. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
I myself am also persuaded about
you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all
knowledge, able also to admonish others.
15 But I write the more boldly to you in part,
as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by ELOHIM,
16 that I should be a servant of Messiah YESHUA
to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of ELOHIM, that the offering
up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 I have therefore my boasting in Messiah
YESHUA in things pertaining to ELOHIM!
18 For I will not dare to speak of any things
except those which Messiah worked through me, for the obedience of the
Gentiles, by word and deed,
19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the
power of ELOHIM’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to
Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Messiah;
20 yes, making it my aim to proclaim the Good
News, not where Messiah was already named, that I might not build on another’s
foundation.
21 But, as it is written, “They will see, to whom no news of him
came. They who haven’t heard will
understand.”
22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Plan to Visit Rome. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Therefore also I was hindered
these many times from coming to you,
23 but now, no longer having any place in these
regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
24 whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to
you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by
you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem,
serving the holy ones.
26 For it has been the good pleasure of
Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the holy
ones who are at Jerusalem.
27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and
they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their
spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and
have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
29 I know that, when I come to you, I will come
in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Messiah.
30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our ADONAI YESHUA
the Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in
your prayers to ELOHIM for me,
31 that I may be delivered from those who are
disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be
acceptable to the holy ones;
32 that I may come to you in joy through the
will of ELOHIM, and together with you, find rest.
33 Now the ELOHIM of peace be with you all.
Amen.
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