Terra Told's HISTORY'S TURNING POINTS documentary series continues with Queen Esther — the young queen who stopped an empire-wide extermination in a single night.
The Book of Esther never mentions God — not once in ten chapters — yet it became one of history's great survival stories. How did one woman outplay the Persian Empire's most powerful vizier? From the 180-day feast of Xerxes to Haman's 50-cubit gallows, from a sleepless night and an unread chronicle to the festival of Purim still celebrated every spring — this is the political thriller hiding inside the Bible, and the palace it happened in has been dug out of the ground at Susa.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 What is the Book of Esther about
00:40 Who was King Ahasuerus in real history
01:16 What happened to Queen Vashti
01:46 How did Esther become queen of Persia
02:25 Haman's plot to destroy the Jews explained
03:11 What does "for such a time as this" mean
03:49 The 50-cubit gallows Haman built for Mordecai
04:36 How Esther exposed Haman at the banquet
05:27 What happened on the 13th of Adar
05:44 What is Purim and why is it celebrated
05:53 Is the story of Esther historically true
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