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Bible 112 “For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope”. Jer 29:11 Throughout the Bible we encounter story after story where God uses many different people from different cultures, ages, races, and of different economic status to carry out his plans for the world. One of these characters is a young Jewish woman named Esther, who becomes Queen of Susa. There is not much written about Esther before she was taken to the Kings palace. All that we know of her is that she was Jewish and that she was an orphan being raised by her cousin Mordecai. The bible talks about her extraordinary beauty, in Esther 2:7, however, it doesn’t talk about her personality. The only things that we can gather are that she is loyal and obedient to her cousin. An example would be in Esther 2:20 the Bible tells us that she did not reveal her heritage because Mordecai told her not too. Another personality trait we can gather from the beginning of Esther’s story