The same day, the king gave Haman's house to Esther, and Mordecai came before the king, and received the ring taken from Haman. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Surely, a brighter day had suddenly dawned for the Jews! But the decree mentioned. in chapter 3, verses 12-15 still stood the thirteenth day of the twelfth month all Jews, both old and young, little children and women were to be killed, And the laws of the Medes and Persians were unalterable.
Esther therefore spoke again to the king, beseeching him with tears to put away Hainan's mischief, and he gave permission to Esther and Mordecai to write in his name and seal with his ring, a new decree to all the provinces. The decree was written by Mordecai, stating that the king granted the Jews in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life, to destroy all that might attack them, and to take their property, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month.
Mordecai was now no more the despised Jew, but was clothed in the royal apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and mantle of byssus (fine, white cloth) and purple, and the city of Shushan rejoiced. The Jews were joyful, and many among the people of the land became Jews because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
In all this, it is plain, the unseen tine unnamed, but not unknown God, was exercising His power. The Jews had, or account of their transgressions, been carried away from their homes by the Baby, Ionians, and now the Medes and Persian; were their rulers, but God's eyes rested upon them in their distress, and He would not allow them to be destroyed. Far from their homes, and a subject people, the were suddenly, by divine power brought into favor with the great king.