He remembered the Lord’s instructions relative to the orphans and His care for them ( Ex. 22:22 22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 2:7), and ever after his care for her did not diminish. “Whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter” (ch. Her second name, Esther, means “star,” a name which goes with the high position for which she was destined. The first of her names which signifies “myrtle,” agrees well with her whose perfume of beauty and grace spread around her and won the hearts of others (ch. The first trait of his character recorded to us is his tender concern for his orphaned cousin Hadassah or Esther. Though he was one of the officers of the king, Mordecai was a true Jew, faithful to his God, true to his profession, having faith and confidence in the God of Israel. (See the history of the “wise men from the east,” Matt. 2, that of the Ethiopian eunuch, Acts 8, and of Lydia, Acts 16, etc.) Many incidents show us that these exiles, having the knowledge of the only true and living God and possessing His oracles, exercised their influence about them, preparing to a great extent the happenings of the gospel. God showed in this way that He did not forget His people, which one day would be at the head of the nations. Thus, those poor Jewish captives, although often oppressed, had someone of their own at the court of the kings in power. 3How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. 2I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. (Daniel 2:48)ġNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth Peace be multiplied unto you. (Nehemiah 2:1‑8)), and we know the great dignity accorded to Daniel at the court of the kings of Babylon and those of the kings of Persia which succeeded them ( Dan. 2:48 4:1-3 48Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. 7Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah 8And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. 6And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me and I set him a time. 5And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. Then I was very sore afraid, 3And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? 4Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. 2Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. (Daniel 2:49).) Nehemiah was cupbearer to the king and in favor with him ( Neh. 2:1-8 1And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. 3:2-3 Dan. 2:49 49Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king. Mordecai “sat in the king’s gate” which indicates that he occupied a position among the servants of the king of Persia (ch.
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