7130 | RUT 1:1 | In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab. |
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, |
7133 | RUT 1:4 | who married Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, |
7136 | RUT 1:7 | As they were setting out together on the journey to Judah, |
7149 | RUT 1:20 | “Do not call me Naomi,” she said to them, “call me Mara, for the Almighty has given me a bitter lot. |
7150 | RUT 1:21 | I had plenty when I left, but the Lord has brought me back empty handed. Why should you call me Naomi, now that the Lord has afflicted me, and the Almighty has brought misfortune on me?” |
7154 | RUT 2:3 | So she went to glean in the field after the reapers. As it happened, she was in that part of the field which belonged to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. |
7165 | RUT 2:14 | At mealtime Boaz said to Ruth, “Come here and eat some of the food and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed her some roasted grain. She ate until she was satisfied and had some left. |
7167 | RUT 2:16 | Also pull out some for her from the bundles and leave for her to glean, and do not find fault with her.” |
7170 | RUT 2:19 | “Where did you glean today, and where did you work?” asked her mother-in-law. “A blessing on him who took notice of you!” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man with whom I worked today,” she said, “is Boaz.” |
7182 | RUT 3:8 | At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and there was a woman lying at his feet! |
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. |
7211 | RUT 4:19 | Hezron of Ram, Ram of Amminadab, |
7212 | RUT 4:20 | Amminidab of Nashon, Nashon of Salmon, |
12707 | EST 1:1 | These events happened in the time of Ahasuerus, who ruled over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia |
12715 | EST 1:9 | Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the King Ahasuerus’ royal palace. |
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 |
12720 | EST 1:14 | Those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memucan, seven officials of Persia and Media who had access to the king and were highest in the kingdom. |
12721 | EST 1:15 | “Queen Vashti”, the king said, “has failed to obey my royal command – the command of King Ahasuerus conveyed through the eunuchs! What does the law say should be done to her?” |
12723 | EST 1:17 | The refusal of the queen will be reported to all the women with the result that it will make them despise their husbands. They will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come!’ |
12725 | EST 1:19 | If it seems best to the king, let him send out a royal edict. Let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media, never to be repealed, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus. Let the king give her place as queen to another who is more worthy than she. |
12729 | EST 2:1 | Some time later, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered what Vashti had done and what had been decreed against her. |
12740 | EST 2:12 | The girls were prepared for meeting King Ahasuerus for twelve months: six months being treated with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and cosmetics. After the twelve months, |
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. |
12744 | EST 2:16 | Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. |
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. |
12747 | EST 2:19 | All the time the virgins were assembled again, Mordecai was sitting as an offical at the king’s gate. |
12749 | EST 2:21 | In those days while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the royal court attendants, Bigthan and Teresh, who guarded the entrance of the palace, became enraged and attempted to kill King Ahasuerus. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
12765 | EST 3:14 | A copy of the edict was to be published as a decree in every province – publicly displayed so that everyone might be ready for that day. |
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. |
12777 | EST 4:11 | “All the king’s courtiers and the people of the king’s provinces know that for every man or woman who goes to the king into the inner court without being called there is one penalty, death, unless the king holds out the golden sceptre signifying that they may live. It has been thirty days since I have been called to go in to the king.” |
12799 | EST 6:2 | It was found recorded how Mordecai had furnished information regarding Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s attendants who guarded the entrance of the palace, who had attempted to kill King Ahasuerus. |
12813 | EST 7:2 | As they were drinking wine on that second day, the king again said to Esther, “Whatever your petition is, Queen Esther, it will be granted to you. Whatever you request it will be done, even if it takes half of the kingdom.” |
12816 | EST 7:5 | Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he and where is he whose heart has impelled him to do this?” |
12817 | EST 7:6 | “A foe, an enemy: this wicked Haman.” Esther answered. Haman shrank in terror before the king and the queen. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
12833 | EST 8:12 | throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus on that thirteenth day of the twelfth month (which is called Adar). |
12834 | EST 8:13 | A copy of the edict was to be published as a decree in every province – publicly displayed so that the Jews might be ready for that day and avenge themselves. |
12838 | EST 8:17 | And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews and a holiday. Many of the peoples of the earth professed to be Jews, for fear of the Jews took possession of them. |
12839 | EST 9:1 | Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over those who hated them. |
12840 | EST 9:2 | The Jews gathered together in the cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to attack anyone who tried to harm them. No one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples. |
12841 | EST 9:3 | All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. |
12845 | EST 9:7 | They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, |
12846 | EST 9:8 | Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, |
12847 | EST 9:9 | Parmashta, Arisia, Aridai, and Vaizatha, |
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. |
12853 | EST 9:15 | The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any plunder. |
12854 | EST 9:16 | And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any plunder. |
12855 | EST 9:17 | This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. |
12857 | EST 9:19 | This is why the Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other. |
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. |
12866 | EST 9:28 | and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city. And these days of Purim should not pass away from among the Jews nor the remembrance of them disappear among their descendants. |
12867 | EST 9:29 | Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, gave Mordecai the Jew all authority in writing to confirm this second letter of Purim. |
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, |
12870 | EST 9:32 | And the commands of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the records. |
12871 | EST 10:1 | King Ahasuerus imposed a tribute on the land and the coasts. |
12872 | EST 10:2 | All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king advanced him, are they not recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? |
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. |
13969 | PSA 3:8 | Arise, Lord: save me, my God, who strikes all my foes on the cheek, and shatters the teeth of the wicked. |
13972 | PSA 4:2 | Answer my cry, God, my defender. Often from straits you have brought me to spacious places. So now show me your favor and hear my prayer. |
13982 | PSA 5:3 | Attend to my loud cry for help, my king and my God. |
13999 | PSA 6:7 | I am so weary of sighing. All the night I make my bed swim, and wet my couch with my tears. |
14010 | PSA 7:7 | Arise, Lord, in anger, against my foes rise in fury. Awake for my help: let justice be done. |
14044 | PSA 9:13 | As avenger of blood, he keeps them in mind, he does not forget the cry of the wretched. |
14051 | PSA 9:20 | Arise, Lord; don’t let them triumph: before your face let the nations be judged. |
14064 | PSA 10:12 | Arise, Lord, lift up your hand, do not forget the cry of the wretched. |
14083 | PSA 12:6 | “The poor are despoiled, and the needy are sighing; so now I will act,” the Lord declares “And place them in the safety they long for.” |
14128 | PSA 17:13 | Arise, Lord, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked, |
14143 | PSA 18:13 | At the radiance before him there passed hailstones and coals of fire. |
14154 | PSA 18:24 | And I was blameless before him, guarding myself from sin. |
14161 | PSA 18:31 | As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is pure. He is shield to all who take refuge in him. |
14162 | PSA 18:32 | For who is God but the Lord? And who is a rock but our God? |
14194 | PSA 19:13 | Who can know their flaws? Absolve me from those I know not. |
14200 | PSA 20:4 | All your meal-offerings may he remember, your burnt-offerings look on with favor. Selah |
14228 | PSA 22:8 | All who see me mock me, with mouths wide open and wagging heads: |