Esther (Greek) · Brenton's English Septuagint
Esther (Greek) 10 Brenton's English Septuagint
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 And the king levied [a tax] upon [his] kingdom both by land and sea.
1 Y EL rey Assuero impuso tributo sobre la tierra y las islas de la mar.
2 And [as for] his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.
2 Y toda la obra de su fortaleza, y de su valor, y la declaración de la grandeza de Mardochêo, con que el rey le engrandeció, ¿no está escrito en el libro de los anales de los reyes de Media y de Persia?
3 And Mardochæus was viceroy to king Artaxerxes, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honoured by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation.
3 Porque Mardochêo Judío fué segundo después del rey Assuero, y grande entre los Judíos, y acepto á la multitud de sus hermanos, procurando el bien de su pueblo, y hablando paz para toda su simiente.
3a [And Mardochæus said, These things have been done of God.
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3b For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters: for not one particular of them has failed.
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3c [There was] the little fountain, which became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.
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3d And the two serpents are I and Aman.
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3e And the nations are those [nations] that combined to destroy the name of the Jews.
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3f But [as for] my nation, this is Israel, [even] they that cried to God, and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people, and the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God wrought such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations.
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3g Therefore did he ordain two lots, one for the people of God, and one for all the [other] nations.
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3h And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations.
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3i And God remembered his people, and vindicated his inheritance.
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3k And they shall observe these days, in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth [day] of the month, with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations for ever among his people Israel.
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3l In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that he was a priest and a Levite, and Ptolemy his son, brought in the published letter of Phruræ, which they said existed, and [which] Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]
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Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 24:15; Psalm 72:10; Isaiah 11:11; Genesis 10:5; Esther 1:1
- 2 Esther 8:15; Esther 9:4; Esther 2:23; Esther 6:1; Psalm 18:35
- 3 Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3a Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3b Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3c Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3d Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3e Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3f Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3g Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3h Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3i Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3k Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 3l Nehemiah 2:10; Romans 14:18; Romans 10:1; Genesis 41:40; 2 Chronicles 28:7
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