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Esther 11:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Esther 11:12
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10 and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry.
11 Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honorable.
12 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.
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Esther 11:1
"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."
Esther 11:2
"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,"
Esther 11:3
"a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision."
Esther 11:4
"Now he was one of the captives whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem with Jeconiah the king of Judea."
Esther 11:5
"This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth."
Esther 11:6
"And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them."
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