One Night with the King

One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Biblical story of Esther, who risked her life by approaching the King of Persia to request that he save the Jewish people.

The movie is set in Susa, Persia now Iran. King Xerxes holds a great feast for all the people to attend. Hadassah the main protagonist longs to go to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land and prepares to leave with the caravan along with her friend, Jesse. They stop by the Kings feast before he goes marching to war to avenge his fathers death. Hadassah and Jesse witness the King summoning Queen Vashti. Queen Vashti was opposed to the war, desiring King Xerxes to enhance his kingdom instead. She holds her own feast in protest to the war. When the king summons her to his own feast, she refuses to come stating, I am queen, and I will not lower my dignity. Or shame my crown by wearing it before your drunk, and thinly veiled war council. Because of this, King Xerxes is advised to banish her and select a more worthy queen.All beautiful virgin women in the stronghold of Susa are brought in so Xerxes could leave behind a queen to keep the kingdom unified. Under the command of her fosterfather, Uncle Mordecai who was one of the kings scribes and worked in the palace, Hadassah does not reveal her nationality or family and changes her name to Esther after the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. She is taken in with the rest of the selected women and given cosmetics, perfumes, and treatments under the care of Hegai, the kings royal eunuch. Through her quick wit, intelligence, and integrity, she becomes Hegais favorite contestant. ........

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