Esther 46

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Esther saves Jews from destruction (474 BC)
Feast of Purim instituted (473 BC)
Esther becomes queen (478 BC)
Vashti deposed as queen (482 BC)
Xerxes crowned king (486 BC)
Greeks defeat Xerxes at Salamis (480 BC)
Greeks defeat Xerxes at Thermopylae (479 BC)
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Distressed from a word meaning to twist or
writhe
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Relief KJV, enlargement

• From word meaning spacious or wide (breathe
  easily)

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Ps. 32 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew
old Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For
day and night Your hand was heavy upon me My
vitality was turned into the drought of
summer.      Selah
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Gal. 2 11 Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I
withstood him to his face, because he was to be
blamed 12 for before certain men came from
James, he would eat with the Gentiles but when
they came, he withdrew and separated himself,
fearing those who were of the circumcision.
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Jer. 25 9 behold, I will send and take all the
families of the north, says the Lord, and
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant,
and will bring them against this land, against
its inhabitants, and against these nations all
around, and will utterly destroy them, and make
them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual
desolations.
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The mighty liner of Gods sovereign design keeps
its steady course over the sea of history. God
moves undisturbed and unhindered toward the
fulfillment of those eternal purposes which He
purposed in Christ Jesus before the world began.
A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, pg. 118
In the moral conflict now raging around us
whoever is on Gods side is on the winning side
and cannot lose whoever is on the other side is
on the losing side and cannot win. A. W.
Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, pg. 118
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Let the king and Haman come is the 2nd acrostic
for YHWH
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NIV better, rage
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Pr. 16 18 Pride goes before destruction And an
haughty spirit before a fall
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This avails me nothing is the 3rd acrostic for
YHWH
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Gallows lit. tree impaling stake
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2 Pet. 3 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is
longsuffering toward us, not willing that any
should perish but that all should come to
repentance.