Esther old testament biography of alberta

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Esther is the Jewish maiden who became queen of Persia and rescued her people from a murderous plot to annihilate them.

Her story is recorded in the Old Testament book bearing her name.

Esther Evans was born in Dickson, AB, on May 12, , the second child out of eleven children born to her parents, Jacob and Martha Jensen.

She was born in Susa, and grew up in Persia.

The book of Esther speaks to Christians today.

When Alberta Esther Elliott was born on 16 September , in Palco, Rooks, Kansas, United States, her father, Ishmael Albertus Elliott, was 32 and her.

Esther was born with the Jewish name Hadassah, but at some point, it was changed to the name Esther, which refers to the Babylonian fertility goddess, Ishtar.

The Jewish Feast of Purim celebrates this particular deliverance of the Jews.

The story of Esther begins with a king’s banquet. King Ahasuerus (also called Xerxes) was the son of the famed Persian king Darius I, who is mentioned in Ezra 4:24; 5:5–7; 6:1–15; Daniel 6:1, 25; Haggai 1:15; and 2:10.

The year of the incident between Esther and King Xerxes was about 483 BC. The empire of King Ahasuerus was enormous; in fact, it was the largest the world had ever seen. Persia covered the area now known as Turkey, as well as Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel; it also encompassed sections of modern-day Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and Saudi Arabia.

As with most of the pagan Gentile kings of that day, King Xerxes enjoyed putting on public displays of his weal