Antigo Testamentoáudio
Ester 3 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
15 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1Some time later, King Xerxes promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, making him the highest-ranking official in the government.
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1After these things King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the officials who were with him.
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2All the king's servants at the King's Gate used to honor him by bowing down and kneeling before Haman—that's what the king had commanded.Except Mordecai. Mordecai wouldn't do it, wouldn't bow down and kneel.
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2All the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and honored and paid homage to Haman; for this is what the king had commanded in regard to him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage .
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3The king's servants at the King's Gate asked Mordecai about it: "Why do you cross the king's command?"
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3Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why are you disregarding the king's command?"
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4Day after day they spoke to him about this but he wouldn't listen, so they went to Haman to see whether something shouldn't be done about it. Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew.
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4Now it happened when they had spoken to him day after day and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand ; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
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5When Haman saw for himself that Mordecai didn't bow down and kneel before him, he was outraged.
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5When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, he was furious.
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6Meanwhile, having learned that Mordecai was a Jew, Haman hated to waste his fury on just one Jew; he looked for a way to eliminate not just Mordecai but all Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
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6But he disdained laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were (his nationality); so Haman determined to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who lived throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
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7In the first month, the month of Nisan, of the twelfth year of Xerxes, the pur—that is, the lot—was cast under Haman's charge to determine the propitious day and month. The lot turned up the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
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7In the first month, the month of Nisan (Mar-Apr), in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Haman cast Pur, that is, the lot, cast before him day after day , month after month, until the twelfth month, the month of Adar (Feb-Mar).
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8Haman then spoke with King Xerxes: "There is an odd set of people scattered through the provinces of your kingdom who don't fit in. Their customs and ways are different from those of everybody else. Worse, they disregard the king's laws. They're an affront; the king shouldn't put up with them.
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8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people, and they do not observe the king's laws. Therefore it is not in the king's interest to let them stay here.
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9If it please the king, let orders be given that they be destroyed. I'll pay for it myself. I'll deposit 375 tons of silver in the royal bank to finance the operation."
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9If it pleases the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry out the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries."
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10The king slipped his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, archenemy of the Jews.
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10Then the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
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11"Go ahead," the king said to Haman. "It's your money—do whatever you want with those people."
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11The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, and the people also, to do with them as you please."
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12The king's secretaries were brought in on the thirteenth day of the first month. The orders were written out word for word as Haman had addressed them to the king's satraps, the governors of every province, and the officials of every people. They were written in the script of each province and the language of each people in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
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12Then the king's scribes (secretaries) were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king's satraps (chief rulers), and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, each province according to its script (writing), each people according to their own language; being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.
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13Bulletins were sent out by couriers to all the king's provinces with orders to massacre, kill, and eliminate all the Jews—youngsters and old men, women and babies—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and to plunder their goods.
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13Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar (March 7, 473 b.c.), and to seize their belongings as plunder.
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14Copies of the bulletin were to be posted in each province, publicly available to all peoples, to get them ready for that day.
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14A copy of the edict to be decreed as law in every province was published to all the peoples, so that they would be ready for this day.
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15At the king's command, the couriers took off; the order was also posted in the palace complex of Susa. The king and Haman sat back and had a drink while the city of Susa reeled from the news.
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15The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa. And while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was perplexed .