| Chapter | Verse/s | Verse Summary |
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| 1. | (1-4) | Ahasuerus third year, feast for nobles in Shushan |
| (5-8) | Feast for all people in Shushan | |
| (9) | Vashti has feast for women in the royal house | |
| (10-12) | Seven chamberlains sent to bring Vashti and the crown | |
| (13-15) | Ahasuerus counsels with wise men after Vashti refuses | |
| (16-22) | Decree sent that Vashti was no longer queen |
| 2. | (1-4) | Fair young virgins to be gathered, king to select |
| (5-7) | Mordecai and his uncle's daughter Esther | |
| (8-9) | Esther gathered, favored by Hegai keeper of the women | |
| (10) | Esther instructed not to reveal who her people are | |
| (11) | Mordecai walked before women's house to know how Esther did | |
| (12-14) | Purification of the women and their time with the king | |
| (15-18) | Ahasuerus loves Esther, makes her queen | |
| (19-20) | Mordecai in the king's gate | |
| (21-23) | Plot to kill Ahasuerus foiled |
| 3. | (1) | Haman the Agagite promoted above all princes |
| (2-6) | Mordecai does not bow to Haman, Haman seeks to destroy Jews | |
| (7-11) | Haman presents request to destroy Jews to Ahasuerus | |
| (12-15) | King's decree sent out, confusion in Shushan |
| 4. | (1-2) | Mordecai cries out, in sackcloth and ashes in midst of the city |
| (3) | Jews mourn throughout the country | |
| (4) | Esther sends clothes to Mordecai, Mordecai refuses | |
| (5-9) | Esther sends Hatach to find out what is going on | |
| (10-14) | Esther relates dangers, Mordecai's response | |
| (15-17) | Esther asks Jews to pray and fast for her |
| 5. | (1-8) | Esther asks the king and Haman to come to a banquet |
| (9) | Haman angry at Mordecai | |
| (10-13) | Haman brags about the king's favor, anger at Mordecai | |
| (14) | Haman's wife recommends building gallows to hang Mordecai |
| 6. | (1-3) | Record of how Mordecai had saved the king |
| (4-5) | Haman comes to ask permission to hang Mordecai | |
| (6) | What shall be done to the man the king delights to honor | |
| (7-9) | Haman answers, man to be proclaimed in the kingdom | |
| (10) | Make haste...do even to Mordecai the Jew | |
| (11) | Haman proclaims Mordecai through the city | |
| (12) | Haman returns home mourning | |
| (13) | Thou shalt prevail against him, shall surely fall | |
| (14) | King's chamberlains come to take Haman to Esther's banquet |
| 7. | (1-4) | We are sold me and my people to be destroyed |
| (5-6) | The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman | |
| (7-10) | Haman hanged on the gallows he built for Mordecai |
| 8. | (1-2) | Esther given Haman's house, places Mordecai over it |
| (3-6) | Esther pleads for the letters against Jews to be reversed | |
| (7-11) | Ahasuerus directs Mordecai to send letter in his name | |
| (12-14) | Letter allowing Jews to defend themselves published | |
| (15-17) | Mordecai honored, Jews rejoice, many people become Jews |
| 9. | (1-5) | The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword |
| (6-10) | Enemies of Jews slain, did not take any of the spoil | |
| (11-14) | Ten sons of Haman hanged | |
| (15) | Three hundred men slain in Shushan, spoil not taken | |
| (16) | Seventy-five thousand killed in provinces, spoil untouched | |
| (17-19) | Feast days of gladness celebrated | |
| (20-23) | Mordecai writes to keep feasts on fourteenth, fifteenth day yearly | |
| (24-26) | Wherefore they called these days Purim | |
| (27-28) | The Jews ordained...that these days should be remembered | |
| (29-32) | Esther, Mordecai confirm days of Purim, written in a book |
| 10. | (1-3) | King's tribute, Mordecai's greatness |