Esther 8:2

Before this time, King Zerk-sees took back the special law ring that he gave Haman and put it on his own finger. When Zerk-sees met More-dek-eye, he took that law ring off his finger again and gave it to More-dek-eye. And Esther made More-dek-eye the boss over everything that Haman left behind when he died.

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In The King James Version

And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

In Context

1That same day, King Zerk-sees (Xerxes) gave Queen Esther everything that used to belong to Haman, the enemy of the Jewish people. And she told Zerk-sees that More-dek-eye (Mordecai) was her cousin. So Zerk-sees sent someone to bring More-dek-eye to him.

3Then Esther went to talk to Zerk-sees again. She fell down at the king's feet and started to cry. She asked again and again, “My king, please stop that really bad thing Haman the Aga-gite wanted to do to my people, the Jews.”

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Cross References

Esther 10:2In those days, everything the kings did in the country of Persia and Media were written down in The Book about the Persian Nation. All the great and powerful things King Zerk-sees did were written down in that book. In the same way, all the story of how Zerk-sees made More-dek-eye a great man was written down in that record book too.

Matthew Henry on Esther 8:2-3

Esther and Mordecai Enriched. ( b. c. 510.) 1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her. 2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. It was but lately that we had Esther and Mordecai in tears and in fears, but fasting and praying; now let us see how to them there arose light in darkness.… Read the whole commentary →

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