In Esther it is quite different. Neither His name, nor any reference to Him, even veiled, is found. At least so it is on the page of the English version. Whether there may be any divine purpose in the reputed fact that the name of Jehovah (Hebrew IHVH) is found there in acrostics four times I do not pretend to say. The passages in which they are said to occur are chap. 1:20, “all the wives shall give;” v. 4, “let the king and Haman come this day;” and v. 13, “all this availeth me nothing;” and 7:7,
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