Discovery Box| (0.42) | Neh 12:46 |
| For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors 1 for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanks to God. |
| (0.42) | Neh 13:2 |
| for they had not met the Israelites with food 1 and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.) |
| (0.42) | Neh 13:4 |
| But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms 1 of the temple of our God. |
| (0.42) | Neh 13:11 |
| So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions. 1 |
| (0.42) | Neh 13:17 |
| So I registered a complaint with the nobles of Judah, saying to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? |
| (0.42) | Neh 13:24 |
| Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod (or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned 1 ) and were unable to speak the language of Judah. |
| (0.42) | Neh 13:27 |
| Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying 1 foreign wives?” |
| (0.42) | Est 1:12 |
| But Queen Vashti refused 1 to come at the king’s bidding 2 conveyed through the eunuchs. Then the king became extremely angry, and his rage consumed 3 him. |
| (0.42) | Est 2:16 |
| Then Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus at his royal residence in the tenth 1 month (that is, the month of Tebeth) in the seventh 2 year of his reign. |
| (0.42) | Est 3:10 |
| So the king removed his signet ring 1 from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, who was hostile toward the Jews. |
| (0.42) | Est 4:2 |
| But he went no further than the king’s gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. |
| (0.42) | Est 5:4 |
| Esther replied, “If the king is so inclined, 1 let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.” |
| (0.42) | Est 5:5 |
| The king replied, “Find Haman quickly so that we can do as Esther requests.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared. |
| (0.42) | Est 6:5 |
| The king’s attendants said to him, “It is Haman who is standing in the courtyard.” The king said, “Let him enter.” |
| (0.42) | Est 6:12 |
| Then Mordecai again sat at the king’s gate, while Haman hurried away to his home, mournful and with a veil over his head. |
| (0.42) | Est 6:14 |
| While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived. They quickly brought Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. |
| (0.42) | Est 9:11 |
| On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king’s attention. |
| (0.42) | Est 9:14 |
| So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. |
| (0.42) | Est 9:20 |
| Mordecai wrote these matters down and sent letters to all the Jews who were throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, |
| (0.42) | Est 9:29 |
| So Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm this second 1 letter about Purim. |
