Esther 7 / Purim 2026?

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1 So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther.
2 And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”
3 Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
4 For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king’s loss.”
5 So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?”
6 And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
7 Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?” As the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9 Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.” Then the king said, “Hang him on it!”
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided

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Esther 7:1-10

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then I saw this earlier this morning…

Edit: This Shabbat the weekly portion read in all synagogues was from Deuteronomy 25:17–19:

Parashat Zachor

Parashat Zachor (Portion of “Remember”) refers to the special Torah reading recited on the Shabbat before Purim.

It is taken from Deuteronomy 25:17–19, where Israel is commanded:

“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt… you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.”

The reading fulfills the biblical commandment to remember Amalek’s attack on Israel — a surprise assault against the weak and vulnerable in the wilderness.

In Jewish tradition, Parashat Zachor underscores:

• The moral duty to remember evil

• The obligation to confront existential threats

• The connection between Amalek and the events of Purim (Haman being identified as an Agagite, descendant of Amalek)

It is one of the four special Shabbat readings preceding Passover.

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34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam [*modern day Iran] in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The foremost of their might.
36 Against Elam I will bring the four winds From the four quarters of heaven, And scatter them toward all those winds; There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.
37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies And before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,’ says the LORD; ‘And I will send the sword after them Until I have consumed them.
38 I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the LORD.
39 ‘But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the LORD.”

Jeremiah 49:34-39 NKJV

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THE BOW OF ELAM: IS THIS WHAT WE’RE SEEING? :iran:

Jeremiah 49:34–39

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“The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam…
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.”

  • Jeremiah 49:34–35

Elam was east of Babylon. Its capital was Susa. That territory overlaps what is today southwestern Iran.

The “bow” (Hebrew: qeshet) represents military strength. In the Old Testament, the bow symbolizes offensive capability and national power (Psalm 46:9; Hosea 1:5). To break the bow means to shatter the very instrument of strength a nation trusts.

God does not say He will wound Elam.
He says He will break its might.

The prophecy continues:

“I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.”

  • Jeremiah 49:36

That is dispersion. National destabilization. A shaking so severe it drives people outward.

Then:

“I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies… I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger… and I will send the sword after them.”

  • Jeremiah 49:37

Military defeat. Ongoing pressure. Pursuit.

Then comes the political collapse:

“I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes.”

  • Jeremiah 49:38

That is leadership removal. Regime-level judgment. God intervening in authority structures.

And yet the final verse says:

“But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam.”

  • Jeremiah 49:39

Judgment. Scattering. Leadership collapse.
Future restoration.

Now look at the present.

Iran sits at the center of escalating regional conflict. Its missile systems and military infrastructure are constant points of international tension. Sanctions strain its economy. Internal unrest continues to surface. Leadership stability is repeatedly tested. The nation’s “bow”, ‘its ranged military strength’ is a defining issue in global affairs.

So the question is not emotional. It is textual.

Jeremiah says: Military strength broken.
National destabilization.
Leadership shaken.

Is this the early stage of that pattern?

Scripture does not give a timestamp. It does give a sequence.

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