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1. Esther 2:9הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ
   And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.
2. Esther 2:12הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
   In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
3. Esther 2:13הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the king’s
   When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
4. Esther 2:14הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king’s; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · he
   She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
5. Esther 2:15הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king’s
   Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
6. Esther 2:16הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · King
   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.
7. Esther 2:17הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · And the king
   And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
8. Esther 2:18הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · Then the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · worthy of the king’s
   Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.
9. Esther 2:19הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · at the king’s
   When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
10. Esther 2:21הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · at the king’s; הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · of the king’s; בַּמֶּ֖לֶךְ · King
    In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
11. Esther 2:22לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she informed the king on Mordecai’s behalf.
12. Esther 2:23הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃פ · of the king
    After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
13. Esther 3:1הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ · King
    After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
14. Esther 3:2הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · the royal; הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · at the king’s; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    All the royal servants at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.
15. Esther 3:3הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · Then the royal; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · at the king’s; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · of the king
    Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
16. Esther 3:7לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · of King
    In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
17. Esther 3:8לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King; הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king’s; וְלַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · in the king’s
    Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
18. Esther 3:9הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the royal
    If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
19. Esther 3:10הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · So the king
    So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
20. Esther 3:11הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king
    “Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
21. Esther 3:12הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · the royal; הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ · the royal; הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · of King; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · with the royal
    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.
22. Esther 3:13הַמֶּלֶךְ֒ · of the royal
    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.
23. Esther 3:15הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · by the king’s; וְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · Then the king
    The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
24. Esther 4:2הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · far as the king’s; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · [that]
    But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
25. Esther 4:3הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · the king’s
    In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
26. Esther 4:5הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · one of the king’s
    Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.
27. Esther 4:6הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · of the king’s
    So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,
28. Esther 4:7הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · the royal
    …and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
29. Esther 4:8הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ · the king
    Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
30. Esther 4:11הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · the royal; הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · of the king’s
    “All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”