Points To Ponder 03/14/2006

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is the lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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OLD TESTAMENT: Esther 2:8-13 (NIV)
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When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king's palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem. Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her. Before a girl's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete ____ months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, ____ months with oil of myrrh and ____ with perfumes and cosmetics. And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.
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