Barbara Hayes
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Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:4 ESV
When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 4:1 ESV
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 3:13 ESV
Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 3:9 ESV
If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries."
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 3:8 ESV
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 3:6 ESV
But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 3:5 ESV
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 3:2 ESV
And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 2:17 ESV
the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 2:12 ESV
Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 2:10 ESV
Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 2:7 ESV
He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 2:2 ESV
Then the king's young men who attended him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Esther 1:3 ESV
in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,
May 5
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Zechariah 11:9 ESV
So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another."
May 4
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Zechariah 10:1 ESV
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
May 4
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Zechariah 9:1 ESV
The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the Lord has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel,
May 4
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Zechariah 8:3 ESV
Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
May 4
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Zechariah 7:10 ESV
do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."
May 3
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Zechariah 7:9 ESV
"Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
May 3