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Esther
The Jewish queen of Persia who risked her life to save her people from destruction.
Raised by her cousin Mordecai, Esther became queen without revealing she was Jewish. When Haman plotted genocide, Mordecai urged her to act.
Esther approached the king at great risk—‘if I perish, I perish’—and exposed Haman’s plot, delivering her people. The feast of Purim remembers it.
Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)
Esther 4:14 “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”” Esther 4:16 ““Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!””
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