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Esther 07–F
Esther Reveals Haman’s Plot to the King; Haman Is Executed; Haman’s Orders Are Countermanded; Festival of Phrourai
Esther 04–06
Mordecai Asks Esther to Entreat the King; Esther Invites the King and Haman to Dinner; Haman Prepares to Kill Mordecai; the King Honors Mordecai
Today we commemorate Ruth. A native of Moab, and therefore not a natural descendant of Abraham, Ruth is the subject of the biblical book that bears her name and a study in God’s grace. During a famine in Israel, Elimelech and Naomi of Bethlehem moved to Moab with their two sons; the sons married Moabite women and then a decade or so later died, leaving the women as widows. Naomi told her daughters-in-law to return to their people, but Ruth refused, stating: “Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” After arriving in Bethlehem, Boaz, a relative of Naomi, agreed to marry Ruth and become her ‘redeemer’. Ruth gave birth to Obed, grandfather of Kind David, making Ruth great-grandmother to one of OT Israel’s most famous kings and an ancestress of Christ.
Esther A–03
Mordecai Has a Dream; Mordecai Uncovers a Plot against the King; Queen Astin Dishonors the King; a New Queen Is Sought; the King Selects Esther; Haman Convinces the King to Destroy All the Judaeans
Nehemiah 09–13
The People Confess Their Sins and Take an Oath; the People Repopulate Jerusalem
Nehemiah 04–08
The Enemies Plot to Attack Jerusalem; the Wealthy Return Ancestral Lands to the People; the Work on the Wall Is Completed; the Feast of Tents Is Observed
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