Surprise of the Day

To this day, every March, Jews keep a festival to remember how a former slave in the Bible saved the Jews from extermination around 450 BC. 

Esther 1 – Esther 9:1-32

Fact of the Day

Surprise!  Jewish Esther arrived in Babylon as a little slave girl. A while later, Xerxes, king of Persia conquered Babylon, Egypt and many other smaller kingdoms. When he marched to conquer Greece, he had such a temper that, when a storm stopped his advance, he ordered the sea beaten with 300 lashes.  So, when Esther asked King Xerxes to spare her people from extinction, she had to admit she was a former Jewish slave. With all that against her, Xerxes honored her wish and saved the Jews.

Oh, and the remains of her palace in Susa still stand today in Iran.