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Esther becomes queen

Some time later, King Xerxes was not feeling so angry. He thought about Vashti and what she had done. He remembered the law that he had made, that she should not be queen any more.[a]

The king's servants who helped him in the palace said, ‘We think that the king should send some men to look for beautiful young women for him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1 King Xerxes could not change the law. Because of this law he no longer had a queen.