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And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
