10Therefore hath hee made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.
11And theſe two lots came at the houre, and time, and day of iudgement before God amongſt all nations.
12So God remembred his people, and iuſtified his inheritance.
13Therefore thoſe dayes ſhall be vnto them in the moneth Adar, the foureteenth and fifteenth day of the ſame moneth, with an aſſembly, and ioy, and with gladneſſe, before God, according to the generations for euer among his people.
CHAP. XI.
2 The ſtocke and qualitie of Mardocheus. 6 He dreameth of two dragons comming forth to fight, 10 and of a little fountaine, which became a great water.
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N the fourth yeere of the raigne of Ptolomeus, and Cleopatra, Doſitheus, who ſaid hee was a prieſt and Leuite, and Ptolomeus his ſonne brought this Epiſtle of Phurim, which they ſaid was the ſame, and that Lyſimachus the ſonne of Ptolomeus, that was in Ieruſalem, had interpreted it.
2In the ſecond yeere of the raigne of Artaxerxes the great: in the firſt day of the moneth Niſan, Mardocheus the ſonne of Iairus, the ſonne of Semei, the ſonne of Ciſai of the tribe of Beniamin, had a dreame.
3Who was a Iew and dwelt in the citie of Suſa, a great man, being a ſeruitour in the kings court.
4He was alſo one of the captiues, which Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon caried from Ieruſalem, with Iechonias king of Iudea; and this was his dreame.
5Behold a noiſe of a tumult with thunder, and earthquakes, and vproare in the land.
6And behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their crie was great.
7And at their cry all nations were prepared to battel, that they might fight againſt the righteous people.
8And loe a day of darkneſſe and obſcurity: tribulation, and anguiſh, affliction, and great vproare vpon the earth.
9And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their owne euils and were ready to periſh.
10Then they cryed vnto God, and vpon their cry, as it were from a little fountaine, was made a great flood, euen much water.
11The light and the Sunne roſe vp, and the lowly were exalted, and deuoured the glorious.
12Now when Mardocheus, who had ſeene this dreame, and what God had determined to doe, was awake: he bare this dreame in minde, and vntill night by all meanes was deſirous to know it.
CHAP. XII.
2 The conſpiracie of the two Eunuchs is diſcouered by Mardocheus, 5 for which he is entertained by the king and rewarded.
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Nd Mardocheus tooke his reſt in the court with Gabatha, and Tharra, the two Eunuches of the king, and keepers of the palace.
2** Eſter 2.21. and 6.2. And he heard their deuices, and ſearched out their purpoſes, and learned that they were about to lay hands vpon Artaxerxes the king, and ſo he certified the king of them.
3Then the king examined the two Eunuches, and after that they had confeſſed it, they were ſtrangled.
4And the king made a record of theſe things, and Mardocheus alſo wrote thereof.
5So the king commaunded Mardocheus to ſerue in the court, and for this he rewarded him.
6Howbeit Aman the ſonne of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, ſought to moleſt Mardocheus and his people, becauſe of the two Eunuches of the king.
CHAP. XIII.
HeIof. antiq. lib.11.cap.6 copy of the letters was this. The great king Artaxerxes, writeth theſe things to the princes, and gouernours that are vnder him from India vnto Ethiopia, in an hundred and ſeuen and twentie prouinces.
2After that I became Lord ouer many nations, and had dominion ouer
