Esther was queen to King Ahasuerus when the Medo-Persian Empire ruled the territory from India in the east to Ethiopia in the west. For her or any person to come into the presence of the King she/they had to have been summoned by the king. To do otherwise meant certain death, “except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre...” (Esther 1:1, 4:11).
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