They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries. ¹ 

Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?”

Listen, ¹  my child, ²  to the instruction ³  from ⁴  your father, and do not forsake the teaching ⁵  from ⁶  your mother.

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

The one who refuses correction despises himself, ¹  but whoever hears ²  reproof acquires understanding. ³ 

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

A rod and reproof ¹  impart ²  wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained ³  brings shame ⁴  to his mother. ⁵ 

She considers ¹  a field and buys it; from her own income ²  she plants a vineyard.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Having no regard ¹  for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.” ² 

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet ¹  with perfumed oil.

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

Everyone who practices sin ¹  also practices lawlessness; ²  indeed, ³  sin is lawlessness.

The king then said to Haman, “Go quickly! Take the clothing and the horse, just as you have described, and do as you just indicated to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king’s gate. Don’t neglect ¹  a single thing of all that you have said.”

If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes ¹  to that man ²  when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,

and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt ¹  when they eat their holy offerings, ²  for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long do you intend to put off occupying ¹  the land the Lord God of your ancestors ²  has given you?

O mountains of Gilboa, may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings! ¹  For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled; ²  the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil. ³ 

He issued this edict because ¹  a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. ² 

Let’s move the ark of our God back here, ¹  for we did not seek his will ²  throughout Saul’s reign.” ³