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Esther 2:7
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
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Adoption
... or adoption? It is taking a stranger into the relation of a son and heir; as Moses
was the adopted son of King Pharaoh's daughter, Exodus 2:20, and Esther was ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/4 adoption.htm

The Net Spread
... people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.'"Esther 3:1 ... but the
prostitution of public position to personal ends, and the adoption of political ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the net spread.htm

The Formation of the Old Testament Canon
... in the beginning, probably made for liturgical purposes, and its adoption in the ...
the canonicity of Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, and Esther was sometimes ...
/.../xiii the formation of the.htm

The Bible Canon from the Fourth Century to the Reformation.
... in the matter of the canon at this period was the general adoption of the ... to the
class publicly read.(289) Yet doubts about the reception of Esther into the ...
/.../davidson/the canon of the bible/chapter vii the bible canon.htm

The Order of the Books
... Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther,
Daniel, Ezra ... of the literature are sufficient to justify the adoption of that ...
/.../mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/the order of the books.htm

The Canon.
... about 90 AD, though doubts were still entertained by devout Jews concerning Esther. ...
so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, by the adoption of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter xi the canon.htm

The Confession of the Waldenses. AD 1655.
... the Kings, 1 and 2 of the Chronicles, one of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, the ... il
a institué celuy du Baptéme pour un témoignage de nôtre adoption, et que ...
/.../the confession of the waldenses.htm

"Let us Pray"
... I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." I felt like Esther when she ... you are
not the son of God, if you have no realization of your adoption, the utmost ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/let us pray.htm

The Christian Described
... he can and often doth take away from them the comfort of their adoption, not suffering ...
things come but once in one's lifetime, as in the case of Esther, and of ...
/.../bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xii the christian described.htm

Index of Subjects. Abel, 124, 136, 193, 414.
... Adoption, senses of, [36]404; relation of baptism to, [37]396. Adrumetum, [38]436,
[39]437. ... Enoch, [482]16, [483]246. Esther, [484]226, [485]389. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/index of subjects abel 124.htm

Subtopics

Adoption

Adoption is According to Promise

Adoption is by Faith

Adoption is of God's Grace

Adoption is Through Christ

Adoption is to be Pleaded in Prayer

Adoption of Esther

Adoption of Gentiles, Predicted

Adoption of Joseph's Sons

Adoption of Moses

Adoption: A Privilege of Saints