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Esther is made queen

Esther asked for nothing beyond Hegai's advice when her turn came before Ahasuerus. The king loved her more than all the other women, placed the royal crown on her head, and held Esther's banquet in her honor (Esther 2:12-18).

regnal datingalternate date: 479 BC · common reckoning, Ahasuerus as Xerxes
📖 Esther 2:12–14

12In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months. 13When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace. 14She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

Sources: BradyStephenson/bible-data
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