Thinking Big

Posted 7/28/2002

Ahaserus ruled the Middle East, he thought big.

• His party lasted for 6 months.
• He replaces his queen just because she didn't do what he wanted.
• He let his prospective wives take 12 months to prepare.
• Haman wants to take out his revenge for Mordecai on all the Jews in the land, annihilate them!
• Haman offered to pay Ahasuerus 10,000 talents of silver (940,000 pounds!). At today's prices (about $5 an ounce), that's over 75 million dollars. I don't know what silver was worth in those days, but that's an awful lot of it regardless.