Alpet Sebelum 2021
King James Version
1. After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 2. And all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage. 3. Then the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate said to Mordecai, "Why do you transgress the king’s command?" 4. Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew. 5. When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath. 6. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus––the people of Mordecai. 7. In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is , the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month , which is the month of Adar. 8. Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain. 9. "If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries." 10. So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11. And the king said to Haman, "The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you." 12. Then the king’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded––to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province according to its script, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13. And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions. 14. A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day. 15. The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
1. When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2. He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. 3. And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. 4. So Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her, and the queen was deeply distressed. Then she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and take his sackcloth away from him, but he would not accept them . 5. Then Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and she gave him a command concerning Mordecai, to learn what and why this was . 6. So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate. 7. And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries to destroy the Jews. 8. He also gave him a copy of the written decree for their destruction, which was given at Shushan, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her, and that he might command her to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people. 9. So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai. 10. Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai: 11. "All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days." 12. So they told Mordecai Esther’s words. 13. And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14. "For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" 15. Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: 16. "Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!" 17. So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him.
1. Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. 2. So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter. 3. And the king said to her, "What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you––up to half the kingdom!" 4. So Esther answered, "If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." 5. Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esther has said." So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared. 6. At the banquet of wine the king said to Esther, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!" 7. Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and request is this : 8. "If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said." 9. So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai. 10. Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh. 11. Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king. 12. Moreover Haman said, "Besides, Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared; and tomorrow I am again invited by her, along with the king. 13. "Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate." 14. Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet." And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.
21. "Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, He is there!’ do not believe it. 22. "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 23. "But take heed; see, I have told you all things beforehand. 24. "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; 25. "the stars of heaven will fall, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26. "Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. 27. "And then He will send His angels, and gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven. 28. "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 29. "So you also, when you see these things happening, know that it is near––at the doors! 30. "Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 31. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. 32. "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33. "Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. 34. " It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. 35. "Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming––in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning–– 36. "lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. 37. "And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!"