7131 | RUT 1:2 | His name was Elimelech and his wife’s was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. After they had been living in Moab for some time, |
7172 | RUT 2:21 | “He told me,” Ruth said, “that I must keep near his young men until they have completed all his harvest.” |
7184 | RUT 3:10 | He said, “May you be blest by the Lord, my daughter. You have shown me greater favor now than at first, for you have not followed young men, whether poor or rich. |
7189 | RUT 3:15 | He also said, “Bring the cloak which you have on and hold it.” So she held it while he poured into it six measures of barley and laid it on her shoulders. Then he went into the city. |
7191 | RUT 3:17 | “He gave me these six measures of barley,” she said, “for he said I should not go to my mother-in-law empty-handed.” |
7193 | RUT 4:1 | Then Boaz went up to the gate and sat down. Just then the near kinsman of whom Boaz had spoken came along. Boaz said, “Hello, So-and-so (calling him by name), come here and sit down.” So he stopped and sat down. |
7209 | RUT 4:17 | The women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi!” They named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, who was the father of David. |
7210 | RUT 4:18 | This is the genealogy of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, |
7211 | RUT 4:19 | Hezron of Ram, Ram of Amminadab, |
12716 | EST 1:10 | On the seventh day, when the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zathar and Carkas, his seven eunuch attendants |
12728 | EST 1:22 | He sent letters to all the provinces, to every province in its own system of writing and to every people in their language, that every man should be master in his own house! |
12731 | EST 2:3 | and let the king appoint commissioners to all the provinces of his kingdom to gather them all to Susa the royal residence. Let them be brought into the women’s quarters under the custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who has charge of the women. Then give them what is needed to make them beautiful, |
12733 | EST 2:5 | In Susa the royal residence lived a Jew named Mordecai. He was son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjamite. |
12735 | EST 2:7 | Mordecai had adopted Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, since she had neither father nor mother. The girl was shapely and beautiful; and after her father and mother died, Mordecai raised her as if she was his own daughter. |
12736 | EST 2:8 | When the king’s command and decree were known, many girls were gathered together to Susa the capital under the custody of Hegai. Esther was also taken into the king’s palace and placed under the custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women. |
12737 | EST 2:9 | The girl pleased him and gained his favor, so that he quickly gave her the cosmetics she needed to enhance her beauty and her allowance of food and the seven maids selected from the king’s household. He also transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem. |
12743 | EST 2:15 | When it was the turn of Esther (the girl adopted by Mordecai, daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go in to the king, she only took with her those things that Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, had advised her to take. Esther was liked by all who saw her. |
12745 | EST 2:17 | And the king loved her more than all the other women, and she became his favorite and won his affection. He placed the royal diadem on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. |
12752 | EST 3:1 | After these events King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him to a place above all the officials who were with him. |
12753 | EST 3:2 | All the king’s courtiers who were in the king’s gate used to bow down before Haman, for so the king had commanded, but Mordecai did not bow down nor prostrate himself. |
12755 | EST 3:4 | When they had spoken to him day after day without his listening to them, they informed Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s acts would be tolerated, for he had told them that he was a Jew. |
12756 | EST 3:5 | When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down nor prostrate himself before him, he was furious. |
12757 | EST 3:6 | But it seemed to him beneath his dignity to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who Mordecai’s people were. Instead Haman sought to destroy all the people of Mordecai, all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus. |
12758 | EST 3:7 | In the first month (the month of Nisan) in the twelfth year of the reign of King Ahasuerus, Haman had ‘pur’ (which means ‘lot’) cast before him to determine the best day and best month for his actions. The lot fell on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month – the month of Adar. |
12759 | EST 3:8 | So Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, whose laws differ from those of every other and who do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not right for the king to tolerate them. |
12761 | EST 3:10 | So the king took off his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. |
12762 | EST 3:11 | “The money is yours,” the king said to Haman, “and the people also to do with them as you wish.” |
12763 | EST 3:12 | And so, on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Haman instructed an edict was issued to the king’s satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the peoples in their own script and their own language. The edict was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with his ring. |
12766 | EST 3:15 | By command of the king the couriers raced off, and the edict was published in Susa itself. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in turmoil. |
12768 | EST 4:2 | He went as far as the king’s gate, but no one could enter the gate clothed with sackcloth. |
12771 | EST 4:5 | So Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what it all meant and the reason for it. |
12772 | EST 4:6 | So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square in front of the king’s gate. |
12773 | EST 4:7 | Mordecai told him all that had happened to him and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasury for the destruction of the Jews. |
12774 | EST 4:8 | Also he gave him a copy of the decree to destroy them, that had been published in Susa, to show to Esther for her information. He also told her to go to the king and implore his mercy and to plead with him in behalf of her people. |
12775 | EST 4:9 | When Hathach came and told Esther what Mordecai had said, |
12776 | EST 4:10 | she instructed Hathach to go and say to Mordecai, |
12787 | EST 5:4 | “If it seems best to the king,” Esther said, “let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.” |
12788 | EST 5:5 | Then the king ordered, “Bring Haman quickly, so that Esther’s wish may be gratified.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared. |
12791 | EST 5:8 | “If I have won the king’s favor and if it seems best to the king to grant my petition and to accede to my request, my petition and my request are that the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them. Tomorrow I will answer the king’s question as he wishes.” |
12792 | EST 5:9 | Haman went out that day joyful and elated, but when he saw Mordecai in the king’s gate and noticed that he neither stood up nor moved for him, he was furiously angry with Mordecai. |
12793 | EST 5:10 | Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home. He called together his friends and Zeresh his wife |
12795 | EST 5:12 | “What is more,” Haman said, “Queen Esther brought no one in with the king to the banquet which she had prepared except me, and tomorrow also I am invited by her along with the king. |
12797 | EST 5:14 | Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows seventy-five feet high be erected, and in the morning speak to the king and let Mordecai be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” The advice pleased Haman, and so he had the gallows erected. |
12801 | EST 6:4 | the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s house to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. |
12802 | EST 6:5 | So the king’s pages said to him, “Haman is standing there, in the court.” The king said, “Let him enter.” |
12803 | EST 6:6 | So Haman entered, and the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman said to himself, “Whom besides me could the king wish to honor?” |
12807 | EST 6:10 | Then the king said to Haman, “Make haste and take the garment and the horse, as you have said, and do this to Mordecai the Jew, who sits in the king’s gate. Omit nothing of all you have said.” |
12808 | EST 6:11 | So Haman took the garment and the horse and clothed Mordecai, and made him ride through the city square and proclaimed before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.” |
12809 | EST 6:12 | Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning, with his head covered. |
12810 | EST 6:13 | Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai before whom you have already been humiliated is of the Jewish people, you can do nothing against him but will surely fall before him.” |
12811 | EST 6:14 | While they were still talking with him, the king’s attendants came and quickly took Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. |
12812 | EST 7:1 | So the king and Haman went to drink with Queen Esther. |
12817 | EST 7:6 | “A foe, an enemy: this wicked Haman.” Esther answered. Haman shrank in terror before the king and the queen. |
12818 | EST 7:7 | In his wrath the king rose from the place where he was drinking wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stayed to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he saw that the king was fully determined to bring calamity upon him. |
12819 | EST 7:8 | As the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had flung himself on Esther’s couch. The king cried, “Is he going to rape my queen while I am present in my own house?” As the king spoke these words, the attendants covered Haman’s face |
12820 | EST 7:9 | and Harbonah, one of those who waited on the king, said, “There are the gallows, seventy-five feet high, which Hainan erected for Mordecai, who spoke a good word in behalf of the king, standing in the house of Haman!” The king said “Hang him on them.” |
12821 | EST 7:10 | So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king was pacified. |
12822 | EST 8:1 | At that time King Ahasuerus gave the property of Haman the Jews’ enemy to Queen Esther. Mordecai was made one of the king’s personal advisers, for Esther had disclosed his relationship to her. |
12823 | EST 8:2 | The king also drew off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman. He gave it to Mordecai, and Esther placed Mordecai in charge of Haman’s property. |
12824 | EST 8:3 | Then Esther sought another audience with the king and fell at his feet and with tears begged him to avert the evil planned by Haman the Agagite and to frustrate his designs against the Jews. |
12826 | EST 8:5 | “If it seems best to the king,” she said, “and if I have won his favor and he thinks it right, and if I please him, let written orders be given to revoke the dispatches devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote ordering the destruction of the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. |
12827 | EST 8:6 | For how can I bear to look upon the evil that will come to my people? How can I bear to see their destruction?” |
12828 | EST 8:7 | Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the property of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid hands upon the Jews. |
12831 | EST 8:10 | Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus. He sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Dispatches were sent by mounted couriers who rode the swift, noble steeds, bred of the royal studs. |
12848 | EST 9:10 | the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not take any plunder. |
12850 | EST 9:12 | and the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done.” |
12851 | EST 9:13 | “If it please the king,” Esther said, “let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.” |
12852 | EST 9:14 | And the king commanded it to be done. A decree was given out in Susa and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons on the gallows. |
12858 | EST 9:20 | Mordecai had these things recorded. He sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far. |
12859 | EST 9:21 | He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year, |
12862 | EST 9:24 | For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them. He had cast ‘Pur’, that is the lot, intending to consume them and to destroy them. |
12868 | EST 9:30 | He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, wishing them peace and security, |
12873 | EST 10:3 | For Mordecai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and loved by them all. He sought the good of his people and promoted the welfare of their descendants. |
13944 | PSA 1:1 | Happy are those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, not halting in ways frequented by sinners, nor taking a seat in a gathering of scoffers. |
13953 | PSA 2:4 | He whose throne is in heaven laughs, the Lord mocks them. |
13956 | PSA 2:7 | I will tell of the Lord’s decree. He said to me: “You are my son, this day I became your father. |
13961 | PSA 2:12 | lest, angry, he hurl you to ruin; for soon will his fury blaze. Happy all who take refuge in him. |
13963 | PSA 3:2 | How many, Lord, are my foes! Those who rise up against me are many. |
13973 | PSA 4:3 | How long, you proud people, will my honor be stained by the slanders you love, and the lies that you follow? Selah |
13981 | PSA 5:2 | Hear my words, Lord: give heed to my whisper. |
13995 | PSA 6:3 | Lord, be gracious to me in my weakness. Heal me Lord, for racked is my body; |
14016 | PSA 7:13 | He will sharpen his sword without fail, his bow is bent and ready, |
14021 | PSA 7:18 | I will give thanks to the Lord for his justice, and sing to the name of the Lord Most High. |
14023 | PSA 8:2 | Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens, |
14031 | PSA 8:10 | Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! |
14034 | PSA 9:3 | I will rejoice and exult in you, singing praise to your name, Most High; |
14071 | PSA 11:1 | In the Lord I take refuge. How can you tell me to flee like a bird to the mountains? |
14074 | PSA 11:4 | The Lord in his holy temple, the Lord in heaven, enthroned. His eyes watch the world, they see everyone. |
14079 | PSA 12:2 | Help, Lord, for the good are all gone, faithful people have vanished. |