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highlighted Esther 2:7 ESV
He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 2:4 ESV
And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This pleased the king, and he did so.
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 2:1 ESV
After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 1:20 ESV
So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike."
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 1:19 ESV
If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 1:15 ESV
"According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?"
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 1:11 ESV
to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 1:8 ESV
And drinking was according to this edict: "There is no compulsion." For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.
Nov 19
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highlighted Esther 1:1 ESV
Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,
Nov 19
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:31 ESV
and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:27 ESV
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:25 ESV
And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:21 ESV
But I warned them and said to them, "Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:18 ESV
Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath."
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:17 ESV
Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:6 ESV
While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 13:2 ESV
for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 11:2 ESV
And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.
Nov 18
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highlighted Nehemiah 10:36 ESV
also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;
Nov 18
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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.
Nov 18