Day 266 (Esther 1-5) - Year 5

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap.
0:13.3	I want to give you a heads up that today's podcast might not be the best for younger
0:17.2	ears.
0:18.2	I'm going to talk openly about what's happening in the text here.
0:21.4	This story has an important theme and a beautiful ending, but there are some horrific stops
0:25.8	along the way, so use your own discretion.
0:28.6	Esther is generally regarded as historical narrative, but one other thing to note is that
0:33.1	it's the only book in the Bible that doesn't mention God's name.
0:36.6	Maybe you didn't even notice that in our reading today because we see him in the shadows
0:40.4	of every scene, working things out and keeping with his plan and his promises.
0:45.6	We opened in the capital of Persia, the empire that toppled Babylon while the Jewish exiles
0:50.0	were living there.
0:51.2	Ah, Shuares is King.
0:52.5	We first met him in Ezra 4 just a few days ago.
0:55.4	He was one of the kings who got a letter from the angry locals during their letter writing
0:58.8	campaign to stop the rebuilding of the temple.
1:01.6	He's not a follower of Yahweh, he's just a regular pagan king and a pagan empire.
1:06.2	In history, he's typically referred to as Xerxes I.
1:10.0	At this point, he's three years into his reign, which makes it approximately 483 BC.
1:15.2	He throws a massive six month party, presumably for himself, and invites everyone to see
1:20.6	how rich and awesome he is.
1:22.6	If you don't like it when people celebrate their birth week or birth month, you probably
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