Barbara Hayes
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Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 8:28 ESV
And I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 8:21 ESV
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 8:15 ESV
I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 7:10 ESV
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 7:6 ESV
this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 10:1 ESV
King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 9:14 ESV
So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 9:13 ESV
And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 9:12 ESV
And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 9:5 ESV
The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 9:1 ESV
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:11 ESV
saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:8 ESV
But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:7 ESV
Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:6 ESV
For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:3 ESV
Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:2 ESV
And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 8:1 ESV
On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 7:10 ESV
And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
May 6
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 7:8 ESV
And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.
May 6