Esther (queen)

Pronunciation: EHS-ter

Occurrences: 2

First Reference: Yeshua 11:36

For even the mighty, being kings, if they would be greater still, make themselves subject unto their wives and will give unto them anything which they should ask.

Have you not read how that Xerxes, while he was yet lord over all the earth, being king in Persia, granted unto Esther the life of all Israel?

For this cause do you celebrate the Feast of Purim in joy and thanksgiving; for in the woman Esther did God deliver Israel from Haman who desired the death of all the Jews.

Why, then, will you withhold from women things which are come from God?

Yeshua 11:35-38

See: Barak & Deborah, Haman, Huldah, Xerxes

Summary: Esther was a Jewish queen with the Persian king Xerxes, who thwarted a genocide of her people. Her story, found in the Hebrew Bible (Esther), is the basis for the Jewish festival of Purim. The story of Esther was used by Yeshua to expose the hypocrisy of his disciples who considered women unworthy to receive of basic rights traditionally afforded only to men (Yeshua 11).

Notes/References:

But there arose among the disciples a great contention, for some thought it unseemly that women should minister unto the Lord to touch him, or that they should sit at his feet to learn the law.

For it was thought in all Israel that it was an evil thing that any woman should learn either the law or the prophets, since by woman came the fall of man.

And if it so be that any woman should take to herself a knowledge of these things, then would many think her a witch, being filled with mischief, and they would stone her and drive her from the city to perish.

Yeshua 11:4-6

Esther Bat Joseph

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