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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.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
