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, |
7136 | RUT 1:7 | As they were setting out together on the journey to Judah, |
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. |
7204 | RUT 4:12 | From the children whom the Lord will give you by this young woman may your household become like the household of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.” |
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. |
7214 | RUT 4:22 | Obed of Jesse, Jesse of David. |
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. |
12734 | EST 2:6 | (Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took captive.) |
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. |
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. |
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. |
12764 | EST 3:13 | Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, saying: Destroy, kill, put an end to all the Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, and plunder their possessions. |
12769 | EST 4:3 | In every province, wherever the king’s command and decree went, there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing among the Jews. Many of them sat in sackcloth and ashes. |
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. |
12779 | EST 4:13 | he sent back this reply to Esther, “Don’t imagine that you alone of all the Jews will escape because you belong to the king’s household. |
12780 | EST 4:14 | If you persist in remaining silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, but you and your family will perish. Who knows? Maybe you have been raised to the throne for a time like this!” |
12782 | EST 4:16 | “Go, gather all the Jews in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat nor drink anything for three days and nights. My maids and I will fast as well. Then I will go in to the king, although it is contrary to the law, and if I die, I die.” |
12796 | EST 5:13 | Yet all this does not satisfy me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.” |
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.” |
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.” |
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. |
12829 | EST 8:8 | Now you write on behalf of the Jews, as seems best to you, in the king’s name and seal it with the king’s signet ring. For a document that is written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be revoked.” |
12830 | EST 8:9 | On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is the month of Sivan), the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Mordecai instructed an edict was issued to the Jews, to the satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia in their own script and their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. |
12832 | EST 8:11 | In this way the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and make a stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and annihilate all the armed forces of any people or province that might be hostile to them, including their children and women, and to take their goods as plunder |
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. |
12837 | EST 8:16 | To the Jews there came light and gladness and joy and honor. |
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. |
12843 | EST 9:5 | The Jews put all their enemies to the sword and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated them. |
12844 | EST 9:6 | In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people. |
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.” |
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. |
12856 | EST 9:18 | (But the Jews in Susa gathered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth day – and rested on the fifteenth day of the same month 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. |
12860 | EST 9:22 | as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a feast day. They should make them days of feasting and gladness and of sending gifts of food to each other and of gifts to the poor. |
12861 | EST 9:23 | So what the Jews had begun to do they adopted as a custom, just as Mordecai had written to them. |
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. |
12863 | EST 9:25 | But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. |
12865 | EST 9:27 | the Jews established and made it a custom for them, for their descendants, and for all who should join them, so that it might not be repealed, that they should continue to observe these two days as feasts each year, |
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, |
12869 | EST 9:31 | to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation. |
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. |
14012 | PSA 7:9 | as the Lord, the judge of the peoples. Judge me, Lord, in my innocence and according to my integrity. |
14099 | PSA 14:7 | If only help from Zion would come for Israel! When the Lord brings his people a change of fortune, how glad will be Jacob, and Israel how joyful! |
14198 | PSA 20:2 | The Lord answer you in the day of distress, the name of the Jacob’s God protect you, |
14244 | PSA 22:24 | Praise the Lord, you who fear him. All Jacob’s seed, give him glory. All Israel’s seed, stand in awe of him. |
14264 | PSA 24:6 | Such must be those who resort to him, and seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah |
14390 | PSA 33:5 | Justice and right he loves; the earth is full of his kindness. |
14587 | PSA 42:7 | I am sunk in my misery; I will therefore call you to mind from the land of Jordan and Hermon, the mountain Mizar. |
14602 | PSA 44:5 | It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob. |
14646 | PSA 46:4 | Let its waters roar and foam, let the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. On our side is the Lord of hosts, our sure defence is the God of Jacob. Selah |
14650 | PSA 46:8 | On our side is the Lord of hosts, our sure defence is the God of Jacob. |
14654 | PSA 46:12 | On our side is the Lord of Hosts, our sure defence is the God of Jacob. Selah |
14659 | PSA 47:5 | he chooses our heritage for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loves. Selah |
14676 | PSA 48:12 | Let mount Zion be glad; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. |
14743 | PSA 51:20 | Do good in your pleasure to Zion, build the walls of Jerusalem. |
14762 | PSA 53:7 | If only help from Zion would come for Israel! When God brings his people a change of fortune, how glad will be Jacob, and Israel how joyful! |
14833 | PSA 58:12 | People will say, “Yes, the just are rewarded: yes, on the earth is a God who is Judge.” |
14847 | PSA 59:14 | In your wrath make a clean end of them, that people, to the ends of the earth, may know that God rules in Jacob. Selah |
14860 | PSA 60:9 | Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the defence of my head, Judah my sceptre of rule, |
14912 | PSA 65:2 | It is seemly to praise you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. |
14980 | PSA 68:28 | There, in front, is Benjamin the little, the princes of Judah beside them, the princes of Zebulon, princes of Naphtali. |
14982 | PSA 68:30 | from your temple that crowns Jerusalem. Kings shall bring tribute to you. |
15024 | PSA 69:36 | For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession. |
15075 | PSA 72:20 | Here end the prayers of David, son of Jesse. |
15136 | PSA 75:10 | But I will rejoice forever, singing praise to the God of Jacob. |
15139 | PSA 76:2 | God has made himself known in Judah, his name is great in Israel. |
15144 | PSA 76:7 | At your rebuke, God of Jacob, sank chariot and horse to sleep. |
15166 | PSA 77:16 | by your arm you rescued your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah |
15176 | PSA 78:5 | He set up a testimony in Jacob, a law he appointed in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to make known to their children, |
15192 | PSA 78:21 | When the Lord heard this, he was furious, and fire was kindled on Jacob, anger flared up against Israel. |
15238 | PSA 78:67 | He disowned the tent of Joseph, he rejected the tribe of Ephraim; |
15239 | PSA 78:68 | but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves. |
15242 | PSA 78:71 | From the mother-ewes he brought him, to be shepherd to Jacob his people, and to Israel his inheritance. |
15244 | PSA 79:1 | Heathen, O God, have come into your land, defiling your holy temple, and laying Jerusalem in ruins. |
15246 | PSA 79:3 | Round about Jerusalem they have poured out their blood like water; and there was no one to bury them. |
15250 | PSA 79:7 | For Jacob they devoured, they have desolated his home. |
15258 | PSA 80:2 | Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth |
15278 | PSA 81:2 | Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob. |
15281 | PSA 81:5 | For this is a statute for Israel, a ruling of the God of Jacob, |