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The story of Esther begins with a drunken king and a queen who said no. King Artaxerxes of Persia hosted a lavish feast—180 days of celebration for his court, then seven more days ...
The story takes its sharpest turn on a sleepless night. King Artaxerxes could not sleep, so he ordered his servants to read the royal chronicles aloud. They happened upon the entry...
Agrippa went from debtor, to exile, to suicidal fugitive, to prisoner in chains, to king of all Judea. His life reads like the plot of a novel that an editor would reject as too im...
