Pridie Roxy's Highlights
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 8:15 ESV
I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 8:1 ESV
These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:25 ESV
"And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:22 ESV
up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:19 ESV
The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:17 ESV
With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:15 ESV
and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:13 ESV
I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:10 ESV
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:8 ESV
And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:6 ESV
this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Ezra 7:1-5 ESV
Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth,son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest—
Oct 1
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 10:3 ESV
For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 10:1 ESV
King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 9:26 ESV
Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 9:22 ESV
as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 9:21 ESV
obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 9:17-18 ESV
This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 9:13 ESV
And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."
Sep 30
Pridie Roxy
highlighted Esther 9:4 ESV
For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.
Sep 30