Discovery Box| (1.00) | Est 8:9 |
| The king’s scribes were quickly 1 summoned – in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. 2 They wrote out 3 everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia 4 – a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all – to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language. |
| (1.00) | Est 8:15 |
| Now Mordecai went out from the king’s presence in purple and white royal attire, with a large golden crown and a purple linen mantle. The city of Susa shouted with joy. 1 |
| (1.00) | Est 9:3 |
| All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who performed the king’s business were assisting the Jews, for the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them. |
| (1.00) | Est 9:4 |
| Mordecai was of high rank 1 in the king’s palace, and word about him was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence 2 continued to become greater and greater. |
| (1.00) | Est 9:23 |
| So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them. |
| (1.00) | Est 9:25 |
| But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king 1 gave written orders that Haman’s 2 evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows. |
| (1.00) | Est 9:26 |
| For this reason these days are known as Purim, after the name of pur. |
| (1.00) | Est 9:30 |
| Letters were sent 1 to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the empire of Ahasuerus – words of true peace 2 – |
| (1.00) | Est 9:32 |
| Esther’s command established these matters of Purim, and the matter was officially recorded. 1 |
| (1.00) | Est 10:3 |
| Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus. He was the highest-ranking 1 Jew, and he was admired by his numerous relatives. 2 He worked enthusiastically 3 for the good of his people and was an advocate for the welfare of 4 all his descendants. 5 |
| (1.00) | Job 1:1 |
| 2 There was a man 3 in the land of Uz 4 whose 5 name was Job. 6 And that man was pure 7 and upright, 8 one who feared God and turned away from evil. 9 |
| (1.00) | Job 1:8 |
| So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered 1 my servant Job? There 2 is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away 3 from evil.” |
| (1.00) | Job 1:10 |
| Have you 1 not made a hedge 2 around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed 3 the work of his hands, and his livestock 4 have increased 5 in the land. |
| (1.00) | Job 1:20 |
| Then Job got up 1 and tore his robe. 2 He shaved his head, 3 and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground. 4 |
| (1.00) | Job 1:21 |
| He said, “Naked 1 I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. 2 The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. 3 May the name of the Lord 4 be blessed!” |
| (1.00) | Job 2:3 |
| Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly 1 to his integrity, 2 so that 3 you stirred me up to destroy him 4 without reason.” 5 |
| (1.00) | Job 2:11 |
| When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country 2 – Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. 3 They met together 4 to come to show sympathy 5 for him and to console 6 him. |
| (1.00) | Job 2:13 |
| Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain 1 was very great. 2 |
| (1.00) | Job 3:3 |
| “Let the day on which 1 I was born 2 perish, and the night that said, 3 ‘A man 4 has been conceived!’ 5 |
| (1.00) | Job 3:14 |
| with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, 1 |
