Barbara Hayes

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Ezra 10:1 ESV

While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Ezra 9:8 ESV

But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Ezra 9:7 ESV

From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Ezra 9:6 ESV

saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Ezra 9:3 ESV

As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Ezra 9:1 ESV

After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

finished reading Esther 6, Esther 7, Esther 8, Esther 9, Esther 10 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king....

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Esther 10:1 ESV

King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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,

over 10 years ago

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