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Gihimo nga Rayna si Ester

Unya, sa dihang nahuwasan na si Haring Ahasuerus sa iyang kasuko, nahinumdom siya kang Vasti ug sa gihimo niini. Nahinumdom usab siya sa sugo nga iyang gihimo bahin kang Vasti. Busa miingon kaniya ang iyang personal nga mga alagad, “Mahal nga Hari, nganong dili ka mangita ug matahom ug batan-ong mga dalaga? Pagpili ug mga opisyal sa matag probinsya nga sakop sa imong gingharian nga mangitag matahom ug batan-ong mga dalaga. Ipadala ang maong mga dalaga sa puloy-anan sa mga babaye dinhi sa pinarilan nga lungsod sa Susa. Ipaatiman sila sa imong personal nga alagad nga si Hegay, nga gitugyanan mo sa pag-atiman sa mga babaye sa palasyo. Siya nay mahibalo nga mohatag kanila sa ilang mga kinahanglanon sa pagpatahom. Unya ang dalaga nga imong magustohan maoy imong ipuli kang Vasti isip rayna.” Nakauyon ang hari sa giingon kaniya, busa gisunod niya kini.

May usa ka Judio nga nagpuyo sa pinarilan nga lungsod sa Susa nga ginganlag Mordecai. Ang iyang amahan mao si Jair, ug apo siya ni Shimei nga anak ni Kish nga gikan sa tribo ni Benjamin. Usa siya sa mga binihag gikan sa Jerusalem nga gidala ni Nebucadnezar nga hari sa Babilonia uban kang Haring Jehoyakin[a] nga hari sa Juda. May ig-agaw si Mordecai nga dalaga nga matahom ug nindot ug lawas. Hadasa ang iyang ngalan ug gitawag usab siya ug Ester. Sa dihang namatay ang ginikanan ni Ester, gisagop siya ni Mordecai ug gipadako ingon nga iyang anak.

Sa dihang gimantala ang mando sa hari mahitungod sa matahom nga mga dalaga, daghang mga dalaga ang gidala sa palasyo sa hari didto sa pinarilan nga lungsod sa Susa. Ug usa kanila si Ester. Gipaatiman sila kang Hegay nga gitugyanan sa pag-atiman sa mga babaye sa palasyo. Nakaangay si Hegay kang Ester, ug gihatagan niya kinig maayong pagtagad. Iya dayong gihatagan si Ester ug maayong pagkaon ug mga kinahanglanon sa pagpatahom. Gihatagan usab niya kinig pito ka sulugoong babaye nga gikan pa gayod sa palasyo sa hari, ug gibalhin niya sila sa pinakanindot nga bahin sa maong puloy-anan.

10 Wala mosugilon si Ester bahin sa iyang pagka-Judio ug sa iyang kagikan tungod kay gidid-an siya ni Mordecai sa pagsulti niini. 11 Kada adlaw, maglabay-labay si Mordecai sa hawanan sa gipuy-an sa mga babaye aron sa pagpakisayod sa kahimtang ni Ester, ug kon unsa na ang nagapanghitabo kaniya.

12 Sa dili pa ipaatubang ngadto sa hari ang usa ka babaye, kinahanglan makompleto na niya ang usa ka tuig nga pagpatahom: unom ka bulan nga pagpanghaplas ug lana sa mira, ug unom pa gayod ka bulan nga pagbutang ug mga pahumot sa lawas, ug uban pang matang sa pagpatahom. 13 Inig-abot sa panahon nga moadto na siya sa hari, hatagan siya sa tanan niyang gustong dad-on sa pag-adto sa palasyo sa hari. 14 Sa gabii siya moadto sa hari, ug pagkabuntag dad-on siya sa lain nga puloy-anan nga ginapuy-an sa mga asawa sa hari. Si Shaashgaz, ang sinaligang alagad nga gitugyanan sa pag-atiman sa mga asawa sa hari, mao nay moatiman kaniya. Dili na siya makabalik ngadto sa hari gawas kon nagustohan siya niini ug ipatawag siya.

15-16 Sa ikanapulo nga bulan (nga mao ang bulan sa Tebet), sa ikapito nga tuig sa paghari ni Ahasuerus, miabot ang turno ni Ester[b] nga moadto sa hari didto sa palasyo. Walay laing gipangayo si Ester gawas sa gisulti kaniya ni Hegay, ang personal nga alagad sa hari nga tig-atiman sa mga babaye sa palasyo. Ug midayeg kaniya ang tanang nakakita kaniya.

17 Si Ester ang nagustohan sa hari labaw sa tanang mga babaye nga gidala kaniya. Nalipay kaayo siya kang Ester, ug giayo niya siya pag-atiman. Gikoronahan niya kini ug gihimong rayna puli kang Vasti. 18 Unya naghimo ug dakong kombira ang hari aron pasidunggan si Ester. Giimbitar niya ang tanan niyang mga opisyal ug ang uban pa niyang mga alagad. Gideklarar niya nga walay trabaho sa tibuok gingharian niadtong adlawa, ug nanghatag siyag gasa ngadto sa mga tawo.

Giluwas ni Mordecai ang Hari

19 Sa ikaduhang panagtigom sa mga dalaga, nahimo nang opisyal si Mordecai ug didto na siya mag-alagad sa pultahan sa palasyo. 20 Gihilom gihapon ni Ester ang iyang pagka-Judio ug kagikan, sumala sa gipahimangno kaniya ni Mordecai. Ginatuman gihapon ni Ester si Mordecai sama sa iyang ginahimo sa dihang ilalom pa siya sa pag-atiman ni Mordecai.

21 Sa panahon nga usa na ka opisyal si Mordecai nga nagaalagad sa pultahan sa palasyo, may duha ka opisyal sa hari nga si Bigtana[c] ug si Teresh. Sila ang mga guwardya sa pultahan sa kuwarto sa hari. Karon, nasuko sila kang Haring Ahasuerus ug nagplano sila sa pagpatay kaniya. 22 Apan nahibaloan ni Mordecai ang ilang plano, ug gisugilon niya kini kang Rayna Ester, nga misugilon usab ngadto sa hari nga si Mordecai ang nakadiskobre niini. 23 Gipaimbistigaran kini sa hari, ug sa dihang napamatud-an nga tinuod, gipatuhog niya si Bigtana ug si Teresh ug kahoy. Nagmando ang hari nga isulat kini nga panghitabo sa libro sa kasaysayan sa gingharian.

Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Jehoyakin: o, Jeconia.
  2. 2:15-16 Ester: Sa Hebreo may sumpay pa nga, ang anak ni Abihail nga uyoan ni Mordecai, nga gisagop ni Mordecai isip iyang anak.
  3. 2:21 Bigtana: o, Bigtan.

Eseza Aweebwa obwa Nnabagereka

(A)Oluvannyuma, obusungu bwa Kabaka Akaswero bwe bwakkakkana, yasigala ng’alowooza ku Vasuti, kye yakola, n’ekyali kisaliddwawo. Awo abaddu ba Kabaka ne baleeta ekirowoozo nti, “Banoonyeze Kabaka omuwala ku bawala abato abalungi nga mbeerera. Kabaka alonde ababaka mu buli kitundu mu bwakabaka bwe, bamuleetere abawala abato ababalagavu abalungi mu lubiri lwe e Susani bakuumibwe mu nnyumba y’abakyala. Era Kegayi omulaawe wa Kabaka avunaanyizibwe abawala abo, ng’abawa ne by’okulungiya byonna bye beetaaga. Awo omuwala anasiimibwa kabaka, ye anafuuka Nnabagereka mu kifo kya Vasuti.” Ekirowoozo ekyo kyasanyusa kabaka, era n’akissa mu nkola.

(B)Mu biro ebyo mu lubiri e Susani, waaliyo Omuyudaaya ow’omu kika kya Benyamini, erinnya lye Moluddekaayi, mutabani wa Yayiri, muzzukulu wa Simeeyi, muzzukulu wa Kiisi, (C)eyawaambibwa Nebukadduneeza, Kabaka we Babulooni n’aleetebwa mu buwaŋŋanguse nga y’omu ku basibe abaasibibwa ne Yekoniya, eyali Kabaka wa Yuda, okuva e Yerusaalemi. (D)Moluddekaayi yalina omuwala omuto erinnya lye Kadasa, gwe yalinako oluganda, eyakulira mu mikono gye, kubanga yali mulekwa nga yafiirwa kitaawe ne nnyina. Erinnya ly’omuwala ono eddala nga ye Eseza, era yali ng’alabika bulungi nnyo.

(E)Awo olwatuuka ekiragiro kya Kabaka bwe kyalangirirwa, abawala bangi, nga ne Eseza mwali ne baleetebwa mu lubiri e Susani ne bakwasibwa Kegayi eyali alabirira abakyala ba Kabaka. (F)Eseza n’asiimibwa Kegayi, era n’amuwa ebintu eby’okulungiya, n’emmere ey’enjawulo. Era yamuwa n’abazaana musanvu abaalondebwa okuva mu lubiri lwa Kabaka, era n’amuteeka mu kifo ekisinga obulungi awakuumibwa abakyala. 10 (G)Eseza yali tamanyiddwa ggwanga lye, wadde ekika kye, kubanga Moluddekaayi yali amugaanye okulyogera. 11 Buli lunaku Moluddekaayi yalagangako mu luggya lw’ennyumba ya bakyala okumanya ebyafanga ku Eseza.

12 (H)Awo oluwalo lwa buli muwala bwe lwatuukanga okugenda eri Kabaka Akaswero, omuwala oyo yalinanga okuba ng’amaze emyezi kkumi n’ebiri egy’okufumbirirwa, ng’era mu bbanga eryo, emyezi omukaaga aba ng’akozesa amafuta ag’omugavu n’emyezi omukaaga omulala nga yeyambisa obuwoowo n’ebintu ebirala ebifumbirira. 13 Bw’atyo omuwala n’alyokanga agenda eri Kabaka. Omuwala bwe yatuukanga okugenda ewa Kabaka yabanga wa ddembe okuweebwa kyonna ky’ayagala okuva mu nnyumba y’abakyala. 14 (I)Yagendangayo kawungeezi, ate bwe bwakeeranga, n’addayo mu kifo ekirala era eky’abakyala ekyalabirirwanga Saasugazi, omulaawe wa Kabaka eyakuumanga abakyala ba Kabaka abalala. Era omuwala oyo teyaddanga wa Kabaka wabula ng’amusiimye, era ng’amutumizza.

15 (J)Awo oluwalo lwa Eseza omuwala eyakuzibwa Moluddekaayi, ate nga muwala wa Abikayiri, eyalina oluganda ku Moluddekaayi, bwe lwatuuka okugenda eri Kabaka, Eseza talina birala bye yasaba okuggyako ebyo Kegayi, omulaawe wa Kabaka bye yamuwa. Era Eseza n’aganja mu maaso g’abo bonna abaamutunuulira. 16 Yatwalibwa eri Kabaka Akaswero mu lubiri lwe mu mwezi ogw’ekkumi, gwe mwezi Tebesi, mu mwaka ogw’omusanvu ogw’okufuga kwe.

17 (K)Kabaka n’ayagala nnyo Eseza okukira abakyala abalala bonna, era n’aganja mu maaso ge okusinga abawala embeerera bonna. N’amutikkira engule okuba Nnabagereka mu kifo kya Vasuti. 18 (L)Awo Kabaka n’akolera Eseza embaga ennene, n’ayita abakungu be wamu n’abaami be, era n’alangirira abantu okusonyiyibwa emisolo mu bitundu byonna, ate n’agaba n’ebirabo nga bwe yayagala.

Moluddekaayi Agwa mu Lukwe lw’Okutta Kabaka

19 (M)Olunaku olumu Moluddekaayi bwe yali ng’atudde ku wankaaki w’olubiri lwa Kabaka, abawala ne bakuŋŋaanira eri Kabaka omulundi ogwokubiri. 20 (N)Eseza yakuuma ekyama Moluddekaayi kye yali amukuutidde, eky’obutayogera ekika kye newaakubadde eggwanga lye.

21 (O)Awo mu biro ebyo Moluddekaayi ng’atudde ku wankaaki wa Kabaka, abalaawe ba Kabaka babiri, Bigusani ne Teresi, ku abo abaakuumanga omulyango, ne banyiigira Kabaka Akaswero, era ne bateesa okumutemula. 22 Naye Moluddekaayi n’agwa mu lukwe olwo, n’ategeezaako Eseza Nnabagereka, eyagenda n’abuulira Kabaka nga Moluddekaayi bwe yamutegeeza. 23 (P)Awo ekigambo ekyo bwe baakyekenneenya, ne kirabika nga kituufu, abasajja abo bombi ne bawanikibwa ku kalabba. Awo ebigambo bino byonna ne biwandiikibwa mu kitabo eky’ebyafaayo ebya buli lunaku mu maaso ga Kabaka.

Esther Made Queen

Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided,(A) he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them. Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.

Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,(B) who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin[a](C) king of Judah.(D) Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther,(E) had a lovely figure(F) and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

When the king’s order and edict had been proclaimed, many young women were brought to the citadel of Susa(G) and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. She pleased him and won his favor.(H) Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food.(I) He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.

10 Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.(J) 11 Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

12 Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes(K) and cosmetics. 13 And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace. 14 In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines.(L) She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.(M)

15 When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail(N)) to go to the king,(O) she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor(P) of everyone who saw her. 16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17 Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen(Q) instead of Vashti. 18 And the king gave a great banquet,(R) Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials.(S) He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.(T)

Mordecai Uncovers a Conspiracy

19 When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.(U) 20 But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.(V)

21 During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana[b] and Teresh, two of the king’s officers(W) who guarded the doorway, became angry(X) and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. 22 But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai. 23 And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled(Y) on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals(Z) in the presence of the king.(AA)

Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:6 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
  2. Esther 2:21 Hebrew Bigthan, a variant of Bigthana

After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.

23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.