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Words by God/Music by Doug Schroeder
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November 11, 2025
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MP3 6.4 MB • 192 kbps • 4:38
Story behind the song
This song was composed on 11/7/2025. In the 7th century B.C., a young woman from a backwoods town in the lowlands of Judah (Jedidah) was taken to Jerusalem to be the wife of a wicked king, who only reigned for two years before he was assassinated. She raised a godly son who became one of the best kings of Judah (Josiah); and, for three decades, turned the country in a good direction. In this chapter, we learned about an orphaned girl (Hadassah), raised by her cousin, who is stolen away to, potentially, become the queen of Persia.
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1After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.
2Then the king's servants who attended him said: "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king;
3and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women's quarters, under the custody of Hegaithe king's eunuch, custodian of the women. And let beauty preparations be given them.
4Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This thing pleased the king, and he did so.
5In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite.
6Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
7And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
8So it was, when the king's command and decree were heard, and when many young women were gathered at Shushan the citadel, under the custody of Hegai, that Esther also was taken to the king's palace, into the care of Hegai the custodian of the women.
9Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king's palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.
10Esther had not revealed her people or family, for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it.
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