Esther 11 - Meaning, Themes & Application

In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son brought this letter of Purim, which they said was authentic, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.

In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,

a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision.

Now he was one of the captives whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem with Jeconiah the king of Judea.

This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth.

And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them.

Every nation was prepared for battle by their voice, even to fight against the nation of the just.

Behold, a day of darkness and blackness, suffering and anguish, affection and tumult upon the earth.

And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions. They prepared to die,

and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry.

Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honorable.

Mordecai, who had seen this vision and what God desired to do, having arisen, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even until night.