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Beautiful name!

I'm from Telugu state, India. There are two ladies with name Esther in my village.

Mine too. There are so many layers to the story I never knew!

That is sooo cool! I love how we can use science and DNA to see the movement of people groups. Thanks for sharing that!

That’s wonderful to hear!

I visited here too...Twice

Thank you, and likewise!

Indeed!

Yes! Thank you!

Thank you, and what a lovely name!

Everyone needs salvation here are the words of salvation please forgive me jesus im a sinner come into my heart and save me from my sin I no that you are the savior and I no that you died for me on calvary and I no that God raise you from the dead and you are alive and I thankyou for your salvation in Jesus holy name amen and its important to always ask for forgiveness every night

Thank you, and likewise!

Thank you, and likewise!

It sure is fascinating! Appreciate the kind comments!

Hi John, great question! Based on what we know of the Achaemenid Empire and their court life, I think it is safe to assume that the eunuchs would have been able to relay messages from the harem (where Esther was housed) to the king, either via royal bodyguard or directly. This article has more details: iranicaonline.org/articles/courts-and-courtiers-i

The Iranica article is interesting and well-written, thanks very much. (And to enjoy a dogma-free conversation is totally refreshing, thanks very much!) I’m concerned about attributing the communication at 2:22 to a eunuch, or to anyone other than Esther, because doing so would minimize the weight of Esther’s statement at 4:11 (everyone knows that an “uninvited interrupter (who I think would include a messenger)” risks his life). At 2:22, I think Esther realized that she had to risk her life to discreetly but firmly tell Xerxes that the door guards whom Xerxes had likely personally selected to protect himself from assassins were about to assassinate him. And since Mordecai hadn't known when they would strike, I think Esther realized that she had to act immediately.

I don't know but I saw a Christian theater production where they imaginatively showed the king's mom being the go-between...

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you, hope it was helpful!

Thank you!

This was so fun to research because I had never heard of it before either!

@@GeoLogos gotta love the gems you can find digging into God's word

I was surprised too! And I always appreciate a good fact check!

That’s why it’s so important to be familiar with Church history if you’re a follower of Christ. Here in the west we get fed so much biased left leaning information by the MSM.

This is fascinating to me too! Thanks for watching!

I didn’t either! Isn’t it fascinating?

Thank you!

Thank you for watching!

I hope it stays intact too! We can pray for individual people to come together to support one another, despite what their governments do. 🙏🏻

Vahid Beheshti, an Iranian man who addressed the Knesset in January 2024, said there are 80 MILLION Iranians who want an end to the current violent regime. He told them do not be afraid to attack Iranian bases and support the Iranian people. Subsequently a banner was displayed on a bridge in Tehran stating, "We stand with Israel" and "Vahid is our voice." Source: Levitt Letter March 2024, pages 30, 31. Believers in Messiah Jesus, let us pray fervently for this region and people, especially those of Jewish descent, to have an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon them for such a time as this! Pray love and protection to bless all who are just and good in all that region. A change is coming and they will need the supernatural protection from evil weapons of all kinds, perhaps chemical weapons especially. God is the Victor and His will shall be done. Each of his humans are beloved so His delay may be to allow many more their choice between good and evil, which shall be made clear to us all in the Great Congregation. There shall remain Faith, Hope, and Love and the greatest of these is Love...

Wow, that’s fantastic! I’d love to visit someday too!

Yes, that’s so aurprising that “J” wasn’t separated from “I” until then! There are quite a few articles out there about this and how it was transliterated in our modern Bibles from Hebrew and Latin. Language is fascinating!

The Y is pronouced J.

@@astutik8909 No, the "Y" is pronounced phonetically as a double ee sound as in the word YES! The "invented J" is pronounced like a "G" as in George. The two letters are completely separate.

@@noway905 YHWH = JEHOVAH

Thanks for sharing! I’ve read a few scholars who suggest that Xerxes asked Vashti to appear before everyone wearing *only* her crown, and that may be why she didn’t obey. It sure makes you wonder!

Hello, Canadian neighbor! Thanks for watching!

Lovely name!

Thanks! I’d love to go visit someday!

The Bible does give information in both cases. Moses was hidden by his parents at a time of slaughter of male Hebrew infants. Moses was not an orphan at all. His own mother cared for him awhile after the Egypt princess adopted him but couldn't nurse him. The princess sounds like she did what was prudent, and since Moses came to be seen as her child, and was very bright, he was treated as he was seen- as an Egyptian prince What the princess did in the account is really not hard to imagine at all. She took pity on a baby and wanted to have him as her own. This kind of thing has happened many times with children and animals over the centuries. Somebody decides they want to take care of a needy child (or pet.) As for Esther, she did not reveal her ethnicity until a critical moment, and she knew she could lose her life. Esther WAS born in Persia. Apparently the king liked her better than the huge number of beautiful girls from around his empire. All the others that had come to be seen by the king remained in the house of the women for the rest of their lives. According to the account in Esther, the king did not seem to know her ethnicity until the Haman intrigue and treachery. She either did not have whatever physical characteristics some might have identified as Jewish, or the king simply did not care, because she was so extraordinary. She had to have been! There must have been thousands of beautiful girls with whom she was put into competition. There were 120 provinces! The Bible will always be the greatest book. It is " HIS story.". Meaning, it is the account of the promise of the Messiah, and that fulfillment of all the many prophecies about Him, in the wonderful Person named Jesus of Nazareth

@@bonnielucas3244 // A) if Netanyahu goes on the Israeli TV and says “ this is my son Mohammad and I love him very much,” would it be possible that not one jew in Israel even think that Mr Mohammad Netanyahu is a moslem ? How did a Jewish child with a pure Jewish name grow up in the king’s house in Egypt where they have their own names and no one , not even himself suspected that he was a Jew ? Where were your family living in the 1600s and what was their names and what did they do for living? You have no idea. 99% of us don’t know the first thing about our great grandparents, yet you talk about Moses’ adoption as if he was a Kardashian . Com’n, this is 21st century, let’s be realistic. B) kings did not just marry a girl in the kingdom . It is not that one day Cyrus the great went to a restaurant and fell in love with a waitress and married her. King’s son would be the king of Persia and his wife had to be from the royal blood and must be born in certain families . When Queen Elizabeth’s mother was young and was getting married he went to Queen Victoria and asked her for some advices about the marriage and Queen Victoria said “ as a wife your job is to lay on your back and think about the future of England.” C) this is the funniest one . Today there are 14 million Jews alive. Reverse the population growth and go back to 3000 years ago and at best there were 7 Jews . Moses could have freed them and nobody would know . Are you telling me that god killed the first born of Egypt and parted the Red Sea for 7 Jews ? I bet that you are laughing now, aren’t you?

Hi there, Drunk Bee, do you have some sources to back up your claim about the Persian kings and their marriage rules? I’d like to read more!

@@GeoLogos // Hello A) I am a strategic forecaster and my area of specialty is Middle East . I know more about every country than 99% of them do. When you study the history for so long a pattern starts to appear. The game of politics of 3000 years ago is exactly the same as today . Kings were not the ultimate power , the same with presidents today . For every king there were 50 people who wanted to kill them and become a king. Some of the kings were killed by their own sons . Look how politicians look for dirt on other politicians in order to undo them , same back then . Kings had a haram full of women and they could have slept with anyone but they had one wife and that wife had to be a Persian or Egyptian or or or of royal blood . Look at England today . Prince Albert fell in love with an American woman and he had to advocate the throne . Prince Harry married a black woman and they gave him such a hard time that he has to officially give up his Royal duties and even move out of England . So what I told you is a fact. B) proving that there was no ester in Persia is very simple but it is impossible to get the people of a religion to accept facts. When Cyrus the great was alive there was no such a thing as Judaism so there couldn’t have been an ester . The actual religion of Judaism started at around 200BC . Judaism started in the Babylon. Persians freed the slaves and send them to their countries . When all of them left there were a group of slaves of all colors and races ( 12 tribes) who had been slaves for generations and had lost their identity. There was an old wise man among them called Esra (Ezra) Persians put him in charge and name this group “ the tribe of Esra) esra’eil .” Ask any Persian “ what does eil as in eil and tavar means “ and they will say tribe. It was the Persians who said “ we will take you west and when we cross the Jordan river we will give you a piece of land so that you can live in peace . Egypt was south of Palestine and Jordan river was east of Palestine. God saying “ take my people from the Egypt and cross the Jordan River and take Palestine “ is the same as saying take my people out of Texas and cross the Mississippi River and take Colorado. This doesn’t even make sense. Middle East is extremely tribal , once these slaves were taken to Palestine then everyone questioned them and since they were called the tribe of Ezra then they started to create a history for themselves in order to fit in that society . Three generations later that book became their reality . Jewish archeologists have been combing that land for 70 years and they still have not found one single evidence of anything Jewish prior to 300 BC so they created the biblical archeology to explain everything but biblical archeology has zero credit in the scientific circle . As an intelligent individual in the 21st century when you read a book where on the first page says “ there were only two people on earth and a snake was on a tree and the snake said “ pssst , psssst , hey eve wanna bite this apple ?” You should know where this book is going and you should close it and throw it away . Today there are 4800 religions and every single one is a big lie .

Interesting 🤔

They don’t make tombs like that for just anyone!

What is the story of Queen Esther? Esther, the beautiful Jewish wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), and her cousin Mordecai persuade the king to retract an order for the general annihilation of Jews throughout the empire

@@abndGems is not xerxes worship idol and how can Easter married him?

@@ronaldhoole6888 im not sure sorry im not Jewish ,,, im really interested in Story aspects of these old tales ... there is another story on Daniel and Persians... seems there was some connections in the past with jews and persians

Esther was born around 100 years after Daniel and his friends were taken into Exile to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. Her family stayed there rather than returning to Jerusalem with Ezra and Nehemiah. I have another video that goes much more in depth about this that might answer some of your questions!

@@GeoLogos Hey sam , i hope you are doing well ,, im interested in Jews liberation in Cyrus Era ... did you made any video on that ? how can i learn more about those stories :) im not sure it was before or after eshter ... i think maybe it was way before that

Yes, that’s right about the architecture! You have a good eye for detail. “While the sarcophagus attributed to Esther is dated 1291 (692 A.H.), the other was made in the second half of the seventeenth century. In the early 1970s, the shrine was renovated and expanded by the order of the Iranian Jewish Society. The renovation, undertaken by architect Yassi (Elias) Gabby…” www.archnet.org/sites/1609

Good observation! Xerxes is actually buried in the Naqsh-e Rostam necropolis near Persepolis with the other great Persian kings. Whether or not Esther and Mordecai’s actual bones are in those coffins, it’s still a good memorial to remember their story!

@@GeoLogos I looked up the Naqsh-e Rostam necropolis. Doesn't seem any of the kings are buried with their wives in there.... so maybe they didn't bury king and queen together

Glad you looked it up-how interesting! I’d love to visit there someday.

Hi. I live about and hour away from Naqsh-e-Rostam and also Persepolis, you should check it out, also the tomb of Cyrus the Great is at Pasargard which is about 2 hours drive from Shiraz. It is amazing, the kings and queens were usually not buried together as they often had concubines as well. Such as beautiful country, I have lived here for about 30 years and the whole country is beautiful.

Great to hear from a local-thanks for sharing!

Muslims have a shared heritage back to Abraham and consider the Old Testament Jewish prophets to be prophets in their religion as well-think Daniel (madainproject.com/tomb_of_daniel).

Islam is a Abrahamic religion too, so maybe this story is in Quran too? Don't know for sure but maybe.. From what I know Quran also have some stories from the Old Testament and also the New Testament but maybe a little bit different than what we have seen in the Bible.

@@cormalopo9248 Wait islam is not Abrahamic religion, if it was they would know that Jesus is God. but no you are wrong, please read and find out about it. it is just fake religion.

@@hiphop74100 Abrahamic religions are those that worship the God of Abraham, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. No, I'm not wrong. They don't believe in Jesus as A God but they are still a part of Abrahamic religions according to it's definition. I'm a Christian too, and Islam isn't a fake religion, it is a real religion that people still practicing until now even though I don't think their god is real since I only believe in Jesus Christ our ONLY Lord and Saviour.

@@cormalopo9248 Since you are Christian, and I'm also Christian that believe in Jesus as our Lord and savior. there is no other religion outside of that. i will not call Christianity religion it is a belief. so with that been said, their god is not the same God that we believe, you need to study a little bit about their god. because it is not the same. that's why i call it fake religion created by mohamed, even though millions believe on that, does not make it a right, i hope we can have a good conversation.

We have nothing against Jews and never claimed to destroy anywhere, That's Israeli propaganda. We believe that the land of Palestine's been stolen by Zionists (not Jews) and should be returned to them that's all

That’s very interesting! Ehsan, may I ask if you’re from Iran? Thanks for sharing that perspective! -Sam

@@GeoLogos Thanks and yes. I'm from Iran

برادر این رهبران فعلی که در ایران حاکم شدن بعد از انقلاب دست نشانده قدرت های جهانی هستن .اینا انقلاب رو دزدیدن شاه ایران رو بیرون کردن و نابودی و فقر و فلاکت به ایران آوردن قصه دراز هست خواستی بیشتر بدونی برا بگو .ما مردم ایران رو با این حکومت کاری نیست ..ما ایرانیان به همه ادیان احترام داریم و حکومت نه و دایم تفرقه میندازه بین ما ایرانیان تا دوستی ما را به جنگ مبدل کنه .پیروز و پر مهر باشید .🎉

Iranian jews are ashamed of isreal fir tarnishing their reputation by stealing Palestinians lands, their livelihood and committing genocide. The Iranian jews that I know. Are honourable, kind and decent people. Not evil zionists that are committed genocide.

NOT EXACTLY TRUE. IT WAS THE QUEEN (ESTHER, MORDECHAI'S NIECE) WHO FORCED THE PERSIAN KING (ESTHER'S HUSBAND) TO SAVE THE JEWS. AFTER ALL IT WAS THE KING AND HAMAN WHO WANTED TO KILL THE JEWS IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT HAS KEPT THE TOMB INTACT ALL THESE YEARS. WHAT A GREAT TOURIST PLACE AND OTHER JEWISH MONUMENTS THERE ARE IN IRAN.

@@herbertburack8941 , No one could force the king, get your facts right, the queen revealed evidences of plot and the king acted according to justice

Thanks for your thoughts!

Hi Norman, which part do you think is lies? My research is very thorough and corroborated by multiple sources. Happy to discuss further!