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Forh if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there δenlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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Num. 23:23• ²³Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,{HR}Neither is there any divination against Israel;{HR}According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,{HR}What hath God wrought! (Num. 23:23)

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1 Sam. 12:22• ²²For Jehovah will not forsake His people for His great name's sake; {i}because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.{/i} (1 Sam. 12:22)

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Isa. 54:17• ¹⁷No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] riseth against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 54:17)

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respiration,

Job 9:18• ¹⁸He suffereth me not to draw my breath,{HR}But surfeiteth me with bitternesses. (Job 9:18)

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then shall.

Gen. 22:14• ¹⁴And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided. (Gen. 22:14)

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Num. 23:22‑24• ²²Elohim brought them out of Egypt;{HR}{i}He hath as it were the strength of a buffalo{/i}.
²³Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,{HR}Neither is there any divination against Israel;{HR}According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,{HR}What hath God wrought!
²⁴Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion,{HR}And lift up himself as a young lion;{HR}He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,{HR}And drink the blood of the slain. (Num. 23:22‑24)

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Deut. 32:26‑27,36• ²⁶{i}I would say, I will scatter,{HR}I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,{HR}{/i}
²⁷{i}If I did not fear provocation from the enemy,{HR}Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it,{HR}Lest they should say, Our hand is high,{HR}And Jehovah has not done all this.{HR}{/i}
³⁶For Jehovah shall judge his people,{HR}And repent himself for his servants,{HR}When he seeth that their power is gone,{HR}And there is none shut up or left. (Deut. 32:26‑27,36)

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1 Sam. 12:22• ²²For Jehovah will not forsake His people for His great name's sake; {i}because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.{/i} (1 Sam. 12:22)

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Isa. 54:17• ¹⁷No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] riseth against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 54:17)

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Jer. 30:11• ¹¹For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. (Jer. 30:11)

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Jer. 33:24‑26• ²⁴Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
²⁶then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:24‑26)

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Jer. 46:28• ²⁸Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. (Jer. 46:28)

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Amos 9:8‑9• ⁸{i}Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth: only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.{/i}
⁹{i}For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh corn in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.{/i} (Amos 9:8‑9)

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Matt. 16:18• ¹⁸{i}And I also, I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall not prevail against it.{/i} (Matt. 16:18)

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Matt. 24:22• ²²And except those days had been cut short, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be cut short. (Matt. 24:22)

enlargement.

Heb. respiration.

Ezra 9:9• ⁹{i}For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.{/i} (Ezra 9:9)

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Job 9:18• ¹⁸He suffereth me not to draw my breath,{HR}But surfeiteth me with bitternesses. (Job 9:18)

but thou.

Esther 2:7,15• ⁷And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden [was] fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
¹⁵Now 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. (Esther 2:7,15)

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Judg. 14:15‑18• ¹⁵{i}And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Persuade thy husband, that he may explain to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire. Have ye invited us to impoverish us, —is it not so?{/i}
¹⁶{i}And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not. Thou hast propounded the riddle to the children of my people, and hast not explained it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not explained it to my father nor my mother, and shall I explain it to thee?{/i}
¹⁷{i}And she wept before him the seven days, while they had the feast. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that he explained it to her, for she pressed him. And she explained the riddle to the children of her people.{/i}
¹⁸{i}And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,{HR}What is sweeter than honey,{HR}And what stronger than a lion?{HR}And he said to them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.{/i} (Judg. 14:15‑18)

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Judg. 15:6• ⁶{i}And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.{/i} (Judg. 15:6)

whether.

Gen. 45:4‑8• ⁴And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
⁵And now be not grieved, and let it not be an occasion of anger in your eyes, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
⁶For the famine [hath been] these two years in the midst of the land; and [there are] yet five years in which [shall be] neither plowing nor harvest.
⁷And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
⁸And now [it was] not you sent me here, but God; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 45:4‑8)

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Isa. 45:1‑5• ¹Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held fast, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut.
²I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
³and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I Jehovah, who call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.
⁴For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name; I surnamed thee, though thou didst not know me.
⁵I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: (Isa. 45:1‑5)

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Isa. 49:23• ²³And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah, and they that wait for me shall not be ashamed. (Isa. 49:23)

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Acts 7:20‑25• ²⁰At which season Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, who was nourished three months in his father's house;
²¹and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son.
²²And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of [the] Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.
²³But when he was about forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel;
²⁴and seeing one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
²⁵For he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not. (Acts 7:20‑25)

for such a time.

1 Sam. 17:29• ²⁹And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? (1 Sam. 17:29)

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2 Kings 19:3• ³And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. (2 Kings 19:3)

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Neh. 6:11• ¹¹And I said, Should such a man as I flee? {i}and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in.{/i} (Neh. 6:11)

The fact related in this verse was unquestionably the reason why Esther was raised to regal honours, by the overruling providence of God:

she was therefore bound in gratitude to do this service for God, else she would not have answered the end of her elevation:

and she need not fear the miscarriage of the enterprise, for if God designed her for it, he would surely bear her through and give success.

It appeared by the event that Mordecai spoke prophetically, when he modestly conjectured that Esther came to the kingdom that she might be the instrument of the Jews' deliverance.

Mordecai thoroughly believed that it was a cause which one way or other would certainly be carried, and which, therefore, she might safely venture upon.

Instruments might fail, but God's covenant cannot.

There is a wise design in all the providences of God, which is unknown to us till it is accomplished; but it will prove in the issue that all is intended for and centre in the good of those who trust in Him.

• But the salvation of the Jewish people was uppermost on his heart. He rises above natural affection and is ready to give up that which he loves, in order to serve God and His people. What an example for us! We can understand Esther's hesitation, but amidst the anguish and pain Mordecai endures while urging the queen, although uncertain about the outcome of the means he seeks to use, his faith and his confidence remain unshaken....God cannot abandon His people to the mercy of the wicked. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)

• 2 Cor 4:8-9. May we be enabled, as Mordecai, while feeling the testing, and at the same time having a sense of the ruin which surrounds us, not to yield to discouragement, but count upon God and His faithfulness. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)

• It is as if he said, "Take care that you do not give yourself over to the illusion of a false sense of security, for the stroke and the ruin will overtake you even in your elevated position. If you are not for God and His people, God will be against you." How this recalls the words of the Lord. Luke 9:24. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

W. Kelly Translation

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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, there shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for [such] a time as this.