Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Mordecai's Strange Dream
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3 Mordecai, a Jew who belonged
to the tribe of Benjamin,
was taken into exile, along with
King Jehoiachin of Judah, when
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia
captured Jerusalem. Mordecai was
the son of Jair, a descendant of Kish
and Shimei. He now lived in the Persian
city of Susa, where he was an
important official in the royal court
of Xerxes the great king.
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3 During the second year of Xerxes'
reign, on the first day of the month
of Nisan, Mordecai had a dream. note
4 He dreamed that there was great
noise and confusion, loud thunder,
and an earthquake, with terrible turmoil
on the earth.
5 Then two huge
dragons appeared, ready to fight
each other.
6 They made a dreadful
noise, and all the nations got ready
to make war against God's nation of
righteous people.
7 For the world it
was a day of darkness and gloom,
trouble and distress, destruction and
ruin.
8 All of God's righteous people
were troubled, in great fear of what
was about to happen to them. They
prepared for death,
9 but they cried
out to God for help. In the dream
their prayer was answered by a
great river which came flowing out
of a small spring.
10 The day dawned,
the sun rose, and the humble people
were made strong and destroyed
their arrogant enemies.
11 Mordecai woke up from this
dream in which he saw what God
planned to do. He thought about it
all day and tried to understand what
it meant.
Mordecai Saves the King's Life
12 While Mordecai was resting in
the courtyard of the palace, where
two of the king's eunuchs, Gabatha
and Tharra, were on guard,
13 he
overheard them plotting together.
He listened carefully to what they
were saying and learned that they
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were making plans to kill the king.
So Mordecai went to King Xerxes
and told him about the plot of the
two eunuchs.
14 The king had them
questioned, and when they confessed,
they were led away and executed.
15 The king had an account of this
written in the official records, and
Mordecai also wrote an account of
it.
16 Then the king appointed Mordecai
to a position at court and gave
him many gifts as a reward for what
he had done.
17 But Haman son of Hammedatha,
a Bougaean who was respected
by the king, tried to cause
trouble for Mordecai and his people
the Jews, because Mordecai had
been responsible for the death of the
two eunuchs.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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