{"id":2724,"date":"2013-02-20T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:00:54","slug":"what-a-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"What a contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews they killed; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder&#8230;.So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman&#8217;s ten sons. And the Jews who\u00a0 were\u00a0 in Shushan gathered together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder. The remainder of the Jews in the kings provinces gathered together and protected their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their enemies; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.\u00a0\u00a0 Esther 9:10, 14-16<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The carnage is hard to comprehend, hard to deal with, even though it must be understood as the judgement of God.\u00a0 It is interesting that three times it is written&#8212;that they did not lay a hand on the plunder.\u00a0 What a contrast!\u00a0 A conqering army always takes away the plunder.\u00a0 To the victor belongs the spoils.\u00a0 But there was no victor here, save God Almighty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews they killed; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder&#8230;.So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman&#8217;s ten sons. And the Jews who\u00a0 were\u00a0 in Shushan gathered together again &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a contrast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}