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Designed to strengthen the global church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, this commentary series features the full text of the ESV Bible passage by passage, with crisp and theologically rich exposition and application. Editors Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Jay Sklar have...

the book ended with many Persians explicitly aligning themselves with the God of Mordecai and Esther, with Mordecai working for the good, not just of his own people but of the Gentiles as well? This, in turn, raises the issue of how God’s people can most fully glorify God when he works on their behalf. A number of OT texts emphasize the speech of God’s people in praise of the God who intervenes for them (Pss. 96:7–10; 145:6–7; Isa. 43:10–11; 45:20–25; 66:20). Without denigrating the happy deliverance
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