Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day. And I also and my maidens will fast, and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

"Therefore command that the grave be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him, and say to the people, 'He was raised from the dead.' So the last deception will be worse [than] the first."

to bring the queen in to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations, for she was beautiful.

And Mordecai went forth clothed in the royal apparel, and wearing a golden crown, and a diadem of fine purple linen. And the people in Susa saw [it] and rejoiced.

"Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft garments are in kings' houses.

Of whom let it not be the outward adorning of braiding of hair, and wearing of gold, or of putting on of [fine] clothes,

For thus formerly, the holy women who hoped on God also adorned themselves, subjecting themselves to their own husbands,

All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person cannot live. Only to whomsoever the king shall stretch out [his] golden scepter, he shall live; and I have not been called to go into the king, for these thirty days.

And while the king was inquiring about the kindness of Mordecai, behold, Haman [was] in the court. And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman had come in to speak to the king, that he should hang Mordecai on the gallows, which he had prepared.

And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.

and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done [like that] in any [other] kingdom.

so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

He that overcomes, I will grant to him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.