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If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
