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Esther

16 Chapters · Douay-Rheims Bible · Old Testament

About This Book

Esther contains 16 chapters in this CatholicG33k edition.

Chapter Directory

  1. Chapter 1King Assuerus makes a great feast. Queen Vasthi being sent for refuses to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.
  2. Chapter 2Esther is advanced to be queen. Mardochai detects a plot against the king.
  3. Chapter 3Aman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mardochai, and therefore procures the king's decree to destroy the whole nation of the Jews.
  4. Chapter 4Mardochai desires Esther to petition the king for the Jews. They join in fasting and prayer.
  5. Chapter 5Esther is graciously received: she invites the king and Aman to dinner, Aman prepares a gibbet for Mardochai.
  6. Chapter 6The king hearing of the good service done him by Mardochai, commands Aman to honour him next to the king, which he performs.
  7. Chapter 7Esther's petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the gibbet he had prepared for Mardochai.
  8. Chapter 8Mardochai is advanced: Aman's letters are reversed.
  9. Chapter 9The Jews kill their enemies that would have killed them. The days of Phurim are appointed to be kept holy.
  10. Chapter 10Assuerus' greatness. Mardochai's dignity.
  11. Chapter 11The dream of Mardochai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was into the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome, and put in this place.
  12. Chapter 12Mardochai detects the conspiracy of the two eunuchs.
  13. Chapter 13A copy of a letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews. Mardochai's prayer for the people.
  14. Chapter 14The prayer of Esther for herself and her people.
  15. Chapter 15Esther comes into the king's presence: she is terrified, but God turns his heart.
  16. Chapter 16A copy of the king's letter in favour of the Jews.

Edition Record

Book
Esther
Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible
Old Testament
First published at Douay in 1609
New Testament
First published at Rheims in 1582
Revision and Notes
Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749
Historical Imprimatur
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1 September 1899