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Royal Favour Shown to the Jews

On that very day King Artaxerxes granted to Esther all the property of the persecutor[a] Haman. Mordecai was summoned by the king, for Esther had told the king[b] that he was related to her. The king took the ring that had been taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther set Mordecai over everything that had been Haman’s.

Then she spoke once again to the king and, falling at his feet, she asked him to avert all the evil that Haman had planned against the Jews.

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Footnotes

  1. Greek Esther 8:1 Gk slanderer
  2. Greek Esther 8:1 Gk him

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