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highlighted Esther 8:5 ESV
Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 7:6 ESV
And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 7:4 ESV
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 7:3 ESV
Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 5:13 ESV
Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 5:8 ESV
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said."
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 5:7 ESV
Then Esther answered, "My wish and my request is:
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 5:2 ESV
And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 4:13 ESV
Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 4:11 ESV
"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 4:7 ESV
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 4:3 ESV
And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 3:13 ESV
Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 2:17 ESV
the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 1:18 ESV
This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will say the same to all the king's officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 1:17 ESV
For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.'
Dec 8
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highlighted Esther 1:16 ESV
Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, "Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
Dec 8
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highlighted Nehemiah 10:28 ESV
"The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
Dec 3
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highlighted Nehemiah 10:29 ESV
join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Dec 3
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highlighted Nehemiah 9:31 ESV
Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Dec 3