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Ginhimo nga Rayna si Ester

Sang ulihi, sang naumpawan na si Haring Ahasuerus sa iya kaakig, nadumduman niya si Vashti kag ang ginhimo niya. Nadumduman man niya ang sugo nga iya ginhimo kontra kay Vashti. Gani nagsiling sa iya ang iya personal nga mga alagad, “Mahal nga Hari, ngaa indi ka magpapangita sang matahom kag bataon nga mga dalaga? Magpili ka sang mga opisyal sa kada probinsya nga sakop sang imo ginharian para magpangita sang matahom kag bataon nga mga dalaga kag magdala sa ila sa elistaran sang mga babayi diri sa napaderan nga siyudad sang Susa. Ipaatipan mo ang mga dalaga kay Hegai nga imo mataas nga opisyal, nga gintugyanan mo nga mag-atipan sa mga babayi sa palasyo. Kag siya ang bahala nga maghatag sa ila sang ila mga kinahanglanon sa pagpatahom. Dayon ang magustuhan mo nga dalaga amo ang ibulos mo kay Vashti bilang rayna.” Nagustuhan sang hari ang ginsiling sa iya, gani ginsunod niya ini.

Karon, may isa ka Judio nga nagaestar sa napaderan nga siyudad sang Susa; ang iya ngalan amo si Mordecai. Ang iya amay amo si Jair, kag ang iya lolo amo si Shimei nga anak ni Kish nga halin sa tribo ni Benjamin. Isa siya sa mga ginbihag sa Babilonia halin sa Jerusalem, kaupod ni Haring Jehoyakin[a] sang Juda. Ginbihag sila ni Haring Nebucadnezar sang Babilonia. May pakaisa si Mordecai nga dalaga nga matahom kag nami sing lawas. Ang iya ngalan amo si Hadasa nga ginatawag man nga Ester. Sang napatay ang mga ginikanan ni Ester, ginsapupo siya ni Mordecai kag ginpadako bilang iya anak.

Sang ginbantala ang mando sang hari parte sa matahom nga mga dalaga, madamo nga mga dalaga ang gindala sa palasyo sang hari didto sa napaderan nga siyudad sang Susa. Kag isa sa ila amo si Ester. Ginpaatipan sila kay Hegai nga gintugyanan sa pag-atipan sa mga babayi sa palasyo. Nanamian si Hegai kay Ester, kag maayo ang pagtratar niya sa iya. Ginhatagan niya dayon si Ester sang pagkaon kag mga kinahanglanon sa pagpatahom. Ginhatagan man niya siya sang pito ka suluguon nga babayi nga halin mismo sa palasyo sang hari, kag ginpaestar niya siya kag ang iya mga suluguon sa pinakamaayo nga kuwarto.

10 Wala magsugid si Ester nga Judio siya tungod kay ginhambalan siya ni Mordecai nga indi gid magpanugid. 11 Adlaw-adlaw, nagalakat-lakat si Mordecai malapit sa lagwerta sang ginaestaran sang mga babayi sa paghibalo sang kahimtangan ni Ester, kag kon ano na ang nagakatabo sa iya.

12 Antes paatubangon ang isa ka babayi sa hari kinahanglan makompleto anay niya ang isa ka tuig nga pagpatahom: sa sulod sang anom ka bulan banyusan niya ang iya lawas sang lana sang mira, kag sa sulod sang anom pa gid ka bulan butangan niya ang iya lawas sang mga pahamot kag sang iban pa nga klase sang mga pangpatahom. 13 Kag antes siya magkadto sa hari, hatagan siya sang bisan ano nga bayo kag alahas nga gusto niya nga isul-ob sa pag-atubang sa hari. 14 Magakadto siya sa hari sa gab-i, kag pagkaaga dal-on siya sa lain nga elistaran nga sa diin nagaestar ang mga asawa sang hari. Ginaatipan sila ni Shaashgaz, ang opisyal sang hari nga gintugyanan sa pag-atipan sang mga asawa sang hari. Wala sing bisan sin-o sa ila nga makabalik sa hari luwas lang kon gusto siya sang hari kag ipatawag niya siya.

15-16 Sang ikanapulo nga bulan, nga amo ang bulan sang Tebet, sadtong ikapito nga tuig sang paghari ni Ahasuerus, nag-abot ang turno ni Ester[b] nga magkadto sa hari didto sa palasyo. Gintuman ni Ester ang ginlaygay sa iya ni Hegai, ang mataas nga opisyal sang hari nga gintugyanan sa pag-atipan sa mga babayi sa palasyo. Kon ano ang ginsiling sa iya ni Hegai nga isul-ob niya sa pagkadto sa hari amo lang ang iya ginsul-ob. Nagadayaw sa iya ang tanan nga nakakita sa iya.

17 Nagustuhan sang hari si Ester labaw sa tanan nga babayi nga gindala sa iya. Nalipay gid siya sa iya, kag gintratar niya siya sing maayo. Ginkoronahan niya siya kag ginhimo nga rayna sa baylo ni Vashti. 18 Naghiwat dayon sang dako nga punsyon ang hari agod padunggan si Ester. Gin-imbitar niya ang tanan niya nga mga opisyal kag ang iban pa niya nga mga alagad. Kag gindeklarar niya sa bug-os nga ginharian nga magpahuway ang mga tawo sa sadto nga adlaw. Kag sa iya kaalwan, nagpanghatag siya sang regalo sa mga tawo.

Ginluwas ni Mordecai ang Hari

19 Sang ikaduha nga pagtipon sang mga dalaga, si Mordecai isa na ka opisyal nga nakapuwesto sa puwertahan sang palasyo. 20 Wala pa gid sadto nagpanugid si Ester nga Judio siya, subong sang ginbilin sa iya ni Mordecai. Ginatuman gihapon ni Ester si Mordecai pareho sang iya ginahimo sadto sang ginaatipan pa siya ni Mordecai.

21 Sang sadto nga tion nga si Mordecai isa na ka opisyal nga nakapuwesto sa puwertahan sang palasyo, may duha ka opisyal sang hari nga ang ila ngalan amo si Bigtana[c] kag si Teresh. Sila ang nagaguwardya sa puwertahan sang kuwarto sang hari. Karon, naakig sila kay Haring Ahasuerus kag nagplano sila sa pagpatay sa iya. 22 Pero nahibaluan ni Mordecai ang ila plano, gani ginsugid niya ini kay Rayna Ester. Dayon ginsugid man ini ni Ester sa hari kag ginpahibalo nga si Mordecai ang nakatukib sini. 23 Ginpaimbistigar ini sang hari. Kag sang napamatud-an nga matuod gid man, ginpabitay[d] niya si Bigtana kag si Teresh sa kahoy. Nagsugo ang hari nga isulat ini nga hitabo sa libro sang kasaysayan sang ginharian.

Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Jehoyakin: ukon, Jeconia.
  2. 2:15-16 Ester: sa Hebreo may sugpon pa nga, ang anak ni Abihail nga tiyo ni Mordecai, nga ginsapupo ni Mordecai bilang iya anak.
  3. 2:21 Bigtana: ukon, Bigtan.
  4. 2:23 ginpabitay: ukon, ginpatuhog.

Esther Made Queen

Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided,(A) he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them. Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.

Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,(B) who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin[a](C) king of Judah.(D) Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther,(E) had a lovely figure(F) and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

When the king’s order and edict had been proclaimed, many young women were brought to the citadel of Susa(G) and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. She pleased him and won his favor.(H) Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food.(I) He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.

10 Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.(J) 11 Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

12 Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes(K) and cosmetics. 13 And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace. 14 In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines.(L) She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.(M)

15 When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail(N)) to go to the king,(O) she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor(P) of everyone who saw her. 16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17 Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen(Q) instead of Vashti. 18 And the king gave a great banquet,(R) Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials.(S) He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.(T)

Mordecai Uncovers a Conspiracy

19 When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.(U) 20 But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.(V)

21 During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana[b] and Teresh, two of the king’s officers(W) who guarded the doorway, became angry(X) and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. 22 But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai. 23 And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled(Y) on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals(Z) in the presence of the king.(AA)

Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:6 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
  2. Esther 2:21 Hebrew Bigthan, a variant of Bigthana

After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.

23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.