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For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Esther 9:19 ESV

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Esther 9:22 ESV

as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Esther 9:27 ESV

the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:29 ESV

Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:27 ESV

Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:25 ESV

And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:22 ESV

Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:17 ESV

Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:14 ESV

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 13:7 ESV

and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 12:47 ESV

And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 12:43 ESV

And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 10:39 ESV

For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God."

over 9 years ago

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