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Alastair Roberts
*CONTENTS*
00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Queen Vashti Removed
00:13:00 - Chapter 2: Esther Becomes Queen
00:23:19 - Chapter 3: Haman's Plot
00:36:39 - Chapter 4: Esther Determines to Help Her People
00:48:49 - Chapter 5: Esther's First Banquet and Haman's Plot Against Mordecai
00:58:28 - Chapter 6: King Ahasuerus Honours Mordecai
01:08:07 - Chapter 7: Haman is Hanged
01:18:08 - Chapter 8: Esther Saves Her People
01:31:04 - Chapter 9: The Feast of Purim
01:43:41 - Chapter 10: Reforming the Fiscal Policy
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