Later, she finds out of a plan by Haman-who is on the king’s council-and he is attempting to seek out revenge against Mordecai and all Jews. Ester/Hadassah’s great beauty and personality makes her the favorite and eventually she wins over the heart of the kind and is made queen. Though she is hiding her true identity, her personality shines through. Hadassah camouflages herself under the name Ester and is successfully selected to be a potential queen of the king. As a response to her questioning of the King’s word, the war council advises the King to banish her and find a new queen that will not object his rule. She objects his feast, his level of drunkenness and his decisions to war that he has made with his untrustworthy war council. Though Queen Vashti has organized her own protest, King Xerxes still invites her to his feast, but she refuses to come. To protest King Xerxes, Queen Vashti throws her own feast she also tries to advise King Xerxes to focus on the uplifting of the kingdom instead of killing in the name of his father. His wife the queen of Susa, Vashti, does not agree with Xerxes plans and is against the war. Before going to war, he holds a great feast for all his people to attend and to have one glorious meal before the battle. The king of Susa, Xerxes, is planning on going to war to avenge his father’s death. However within Hadassah’s home city Susa, there are uprisings waiting to occur.

Filmed in the city of Rajasthan, India, the movie follows the life of Hadassah, the main protagonist who is a Jewish orphan that wants to return to her holy land, Jerusalem, with her friend Jesse.

The film is set in Susa, Persia, which is now present day Iran and was produced in 2006. I was a Jew in spirit now, not just by lineage.One Night with the King is a film based on the novel by Tommy Tenney, Hadassah: One Night with the King. I resolved there and then to try and atone for the pain I had caused Him with every minute left to me on earth.

My rejection and resentment had broken G-d's heart as badly as all the tragedies that had ever scarred my life. But not my tears – I now wept because I knew for certain I had caused the sadness I had felt. The breach of those las few years was gone. In the depths of my being, I gradually came to the realization that I had forgiven Him. I wept for you as strong as you weep now.

When those horrible things took place, my heart broke with you. So intense was the grief that it left my chest feeling hollowed into some inner crater – sapping my last ounce of strength yet leaving me to weep on.īut if you're real, I found myself crying silently to Him, then why? Why did you let these bad things happen to me? Why all the death and loss? I wept for th em both, my mother and my Creator.

Hadassah one night with the king