peterrennie48@gmail.com
peterrennie48@gmail.com's Activity
peterrennie48@gmail.com
highlighted Esther 8:13 ESV
A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
highlighted Esther 8:8 ESV
But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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."
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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."
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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."
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
highlighted Esther 5:7 ESV
Then Esther answered, "My wish and my request is:
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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."
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.'
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
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.
almost 4 years ago
peterrennie48@gmail.com
finished reading Nehemiah 1, Nehemiah 2, Nehemiah 3, Nehemiah 4, Nehemiah 5, Nehemiah 6, Nehemiah 7, Nehemiah 8, Nehemiah 9, Nehemiah 10, Nehemiah 11, Nehemiah 12, Nehemiah 13 in Bible in 90 Days:
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,...
almost 4 years ago