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1. Esther 6:10הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · at the king’s
   “Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
2. Esther 6:11הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
   So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
3. Esther 6:12הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king’s
   Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.
4. Esther 6:14הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king’s
   While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
5. Esther 7:1הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · So the king
   So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,
6. Esther 7:2הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ · the king
   …and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
7. Esther 7:3הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · O king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
   Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
8. Esther 7:4הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · the king
   For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
9. Esther 7:5הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · Then King
   Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
10. Esther 7:6הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
11. Esther 7:7וְהַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the king
    In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.
12. Esther 7:8וְהַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · Just as the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · The king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king’s
    Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
13. Esther 7:9הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
14. Esther 7:10הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · of the king
    So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
15. Esther 8:1הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · King; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king’s
    That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
16. Esther 8:2הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · The king
    The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.
17. Esther 8:3הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king
    And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
18. Esther 8:4הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · The king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the king
    The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.
19. Esther 8:5הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the king’s
    “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
20. Esther 8:7הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · So King
    So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
21. Esther 8:8הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · in the king’s; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · with the royal; הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · of the king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · with the royal
    Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
22. Esther 8:9הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · the royal
    At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
23. Esther 8:10הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · of King; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · with the royal
    Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.
24. Esther 8:11הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · the king
    By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
25. Esther 8:12הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · of King
    The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
26. Esther 8:14הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · of the king
    The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.
27. Esther 8:15הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · of the king
    Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
28. Esther 8:17הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · the king’s
    In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
29. Esther 9:1הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · the king’s
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
30. Esther 9:2הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · of King
    In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
31. Esther 9:3לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · and the king’s
    And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
32. Esther 9:4הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ
    For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.
33. Esther 9:11הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · the king
    On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
34. Esther 9:12הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · who; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · of the royal
    …who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
35. Esther 9:13הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · the king
    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”