Time and again in the Old Testament we see that when the Lord commands the Israelites to wipe out another nation completely, even down to the livestock, and to take none of the plunder for themselves, it is only very rarely that they obey His commands to the letter. How many times are we also commanded to do something by God that we take all the glory for ourselves and give none of it to God? The Israelites always learned that obedience to God was their key to success the hard way –this king they spared, Agag, was the ancestor of Haman, the royal advisor to King Xerxes, who tried to have the Israelites wiped out. But God stayed faithful and used Esther to deliver His people.
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